The “Invisible” Group: Acculturation of International Women Partners on United States Campuses

Lin, Hsiu-Fen

doi:10.1080/19496591.2018.1474753

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“…With so little statistical information about this demographic, it is hard to determine what percentage of international students bring spouses with them in addition to knowing the exact number of these spouses. However, previous literature (Lei et al, 2015;Lin, 2018;Teshome & Osei, 2012) has shown the link between international student success and retention rates and the successful acculturation of international student spouses. Emotional support and encouragement were found by Lynch (2008) to be major factors in student success as many international students relied on emotional support from their spouses throughout their program.…”

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“…While international students benefit greatly during their time abroad, not much has been understood about the same for spouses (Bordoloi, 2015;De Verthelyi, 1995) lending many of them to be considered the "invisible population" (Teshome & Osei-Kofi, 2012). IEE's "Open Doors" report (2018) does not mention international student spouses yet they have been found to be significant to higher education (Lin, 2018). With so little statistical information about this demographic, it is hard to determine what percentage of international students bring spouses with them in addition to knowing the exact number of these spouses.…”

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“…While the majority of research in regards to international student spouses have been focused on acculturation issues (Bordoloi, 2015;Campell & Prins, 2016;Chen, 2009;Cho et al, 2006;De Verthelyi, 1995;Kim, 2006;Kim, 2012;Lei et al, 2015;Lin, 2018;Marten & Grant, 2008;Myers-Walls et al, 2011;Teshome & Osei-Kofi, 2012;Zhang et al, 2011), none has focused specifically on support systems institutions could provide to this demographic. The purpose of this study was to investigate individual experiences of international student spouses to understand their perceptions of university support systems by employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).…”

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Packaged Deal: Effective Support Systems for International Student Spouses

Bilas

2020

JCIHE

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Global student mobility is growing in importance as students increasingly turn their interest worldwide. International student spouses and their personal experiences is an emerging problem of practice in higher education due to their connection to international student retention rates. In particular, what support systems are provided to this demographic is especially important. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to examine international student spouses’ perception of support services at an urban private institution of higher education in the United States. A qualitative approach addressed the following research question: What role do international student spouses perceive institutions of higher education have in terms of offering support services? This study focused on five international student spouses who came to the United States on F2 dependent visa status.

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Packaged Deal: Effective Support Systems for International Student Spouses

Bilas

2020

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“…This negligence on part of university administrators continue despite research revealing that accompanying spouses "are a potentially key source of social support" (Martens and Grant, 2008;p. 57) for international students, and play a crucial role in their academic success and acculturation (Lin, 2018). Incidentally, international students contributed more than $38 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2019-2020 academic year (New NAFSA, 2020).…”

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Subliminal voices: barriers to healthcare and proposed interventions by international students and their families at a large research university in the Midwest

Sen

2023

Front. Commun.

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Despite the vast numbers of international students in the U.S. as well as their contribution to the economy, their voices are rarely heard within the discursive spaces of the American academe. This study takes a step toward filling that gap and seeks to open up a platform where married, international graduate students at a large Midwestern university could communicate, in particular, the barriers they faced while accessing healthcare facilities for their families. Using a culture-centered approach to health communication, through focus groups and in-depth interviews, this study provides a discursive space where 22 international students and spouses articulate vivid narratives of the problems they encountered while negotiating the American healthcare system, revealing a basic issue of unaffordability of students' spousal health insurance, accompanied by a dire need for better communication between international students and the university, with there being a need for the latter to better explain to international students a healthcare system that is new to them, as well as communicating with them, with better clarity, the available healthcare options for them and their spouses. The participants also proposed interventions to redress the problems, including the need for better dissemination of information regarding healthcare.

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Sojourner experiences and spatial repertoires

Sandbulte

Canagarajah

2022

ARAL

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Research on translingual repertoires has highlighted the diverse semiotic resources that individuals access in communication, but little research has considered how spatial factors permit or limit access to these resources. Furthermore, as translingual studies have predominantly focused on interactional analysis, there is a paucity of studies on how social networks shape the repertoires of users. To fill this gap, we examine the communicative practices of an international spouse temporarily living in the United States. Through interview data and mobility maps, we analyze the participant’s subject positioning and its relation to his use of spatial resources in different spaces. Despite the participant’s low English proficiency, he engaged in conversations in many spaces through strategic employment of semiotic resources, including multiple languages and material objects. He also adopted certain positionings that afforded him more opportunities to interact. Thus, we argue that the usefulness of semiotic resources is tied to the spaces in which they are employed and that access to these resources is shaped by subject positioning.

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The “Invisible” Group: Acculturation of International Women Partners on United States Campuses

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Packaged Deal: Effective Support Systems for International Student Spouses

Packaged Deal: Effective Support Systems for International Student Spouses

Subliminal voices: barriers to healthcare and proposed interventions by international students and their families at a large research university in the Midwest

Sojourner experiences and spatial repertoires

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