For admissions and financial aid purposes, forced migrant students are often classified as “domestic” students within their U.S. higher education institution. Since they are newcomers to the United States, they often struggle to make meaningful connections within their university community, which can impact their academic success. International student services offices within institutions of higher education have the resources to support migrant students’ transition and campus engagement more effectively, but the immigration policy landscape limits these offices from serving non-international students. The reality is that migrant students are left to navigate their liminal space––as neither domestic nor international. This chapter examines how forced migrant students are siloed, leading to their exclusion from essential academic and social programming. Based on a content review of five U.S. higher education institutional websites, and using the lens of intersectionality, this study revealed a lack of services and support mechanism for forced migrant students and calls for the need for international student services and other campus offices to expand their outreach to this population.

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International Student Services Offices as Key Programming Providers for Forced Migrant University Students

  • Jessica Crist

摘要

For admissions and financial aid purposes, forced migrant students are often classified as “domestic” students within their U.S. higher education institution. Since they are newcomers to the United States, they often struggle to make meaningful connections within their university community, which can impact their academic success. International student services offices within institutions of higher education have the resources to support migrant students’ transition and campus engagement more effectively, but the immigration policy landscape limits these offices from serving non-international students. The reality is that migrant students are left to navigate their liminal space––as neither domestic nor international. This chapter examines how forced migrant students are siloed, leading to their exclusion from essential academic and social programming. Based on a content review of five U.S. higher education institutional websites, and using the lens of intersectionality, this study revealed a lack of services and support mechanism for forced migrant students and calls for the need for international student services and other campus offices to expand their outreach to this population.