Retaining international students in northeast Ohio: Opportunities and challenges in the ‘age of Trump’

Should They Stay or Should They Go? How the 2017 U.S. Travel Ban Affects International Doctoral Students

“…Even though the revised executive order included only six banned countries, its repercussions went on a higher scale, and a large number of students who were not from those countries were feeling anxious and oppressed. These findings align with Pottie-Sherman’s (2018) work discussing the far-reaching consequences of the U.S. political agenda.…”

“…The findings of this project align with the perspectives discussed in the emerging literature concerning the impact of the recent U.S. political climate on international students (Bartram, 2018; Pottie-Sherman, 2018; Rose-Redwood & Rose-Redwood, 2017). This article provides empirical evidence regarding the “world of insecurity,” as Rose-Redwood and Rose-Redwood (2017, p. II) call it, in which international students have to function.…”

“…A divisive political discourse has led to confusion and anxiety. As Pottie-Sherman (2018) noted, “Trump’s Buy American, and Hire American Executive Order appeals to nativist anxieties about skilled migrants as job stealers. These developments allude to the far-reaching consequences for student migrants engendered by this extreme politics of exclusion” (p. 33).…”

“…A timely article focused on this topic and including data provided by international students, and not only institutional enrollment numbers, is Pottie-Sherman’s (2018) qualitative study concerned with international student mobility in the “age of Trump.” Although this study did not include the experiences of students from the actual banned countries, data emerged from 18 in-depth interviews at six Midwestern universities and colleges revealed “the far-reaching impact of Trump’s politics of exclusion” (Pottie-Sherman, 2018, p. 39). This study documented that the recent U.S. political climate “has obstructed the mobility processes and opportunities made available to international students in the US—requiring some to leave the country, catching others in limbo, while many more face the prejudice and violence accompanying media rhetoric about immigration” (Pottie-Sherman, 2018, p. 38). The article also discussed the uncertainty regarding federal immigration policy and work visas for international students, outlining that some international students were reevaluating their options to work outside the United States.…”

Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt

“…In the context of increased immigration policy fragmentation, local responses are also inspired by problems and politics at multiple scales, the "sociohistorical legacies of localities" (Matos, 2017: 810) and the emergence of "eco-systems" of policy entrepreneurs (McDaniel et al, 2019). In the Rust Belt specifically, researchers have highlighted the growing policy consensus around the instrumentalization of im/migration to address problems affecting deindustrialized and/or shrinking cities (Filomeno 2017;Housel et al, 2018;Pottie-Sherman, 2018a, 2018b. In analyzing the string of initiatives that have formed around the Welcoming Economies Global Network, Pottie-Sherman (2018a) highlights the alignment of welcoming efforts in the Rust Belt with post-recession austerity politics after the Wall Street crash of 2009.…”