“…The latter distinction relates to the conceptualisation of cultural cosmopolitanism (Held, 2010;Stevenson, 2003) -how and in what sense migrants connect to a more global cultural space that is disembedded from nation-states (Harvey, 2009;Nowicka, 2005;Ong, 2005). Transnational students may be understood as cosmopolitans (Beech, 2015;Singh et al, 2007) or individuals in search of cosmopolitan identities The second axis of the becoming of an assemblage addresses varying relations from stability to instability and from fixation to flow, tendencies towards territorialising or connecting to place, and tendencies towards de-territorialisation, leading to an unstable flow of change and uncertainty. Territoriality is a type of materiality that can take the form of fixed spatial boundaries (e.g., places, buildings, and physical structures) or non-spatial demarcations, which affect how places, events and situations become homogenised and internalised by excluding and segregating certain groups and individuals (DeLanda, 2006).…”