Countering Colonial Violence: A Care-Ethic Framework for International Education (65844)
Session Chair: Mateusz Jezowski
Saturday, January 7, 2023 (15:25)
Session: Session 5
Room: 323A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Canada profits from the 600,000 international students who choose to study at Canadian universities (Canadian Bureau for International Education, 2022; Government of Canada, 2019). Canadian universities’ invitations to international students carry proclamations of inclusiveness, openness, and diversity. However, international students, many of whom are racialized in Canada, experience discrimination through “conditional hospitality” (Ahmed, 2012; Derrida, 2000). International students are welcomed yet remain in the subordinate position as foreign. Despite high fluency levels, international students’ English usage is considered inferior and often rejected (Martin, 2022). Such discrimination is typically veiled as language support (Ramjattan, 2022) while upholding raciolinguistic ideologies (Flores and Rosa, 2015). Under these conditions, international students are positioned as homeless (Somé, 1998) and voiceless (hooks, 2015) in Canada. Drawing from multiple disciplines, we are a Black feminist creator and a White settler international educator. In this collaborative paper, we are advocating for the inclusion of a care-ethic framework (Sodhi, 2022) in the systems and structures that govern international students’ educational experiences. This framework, based on African epistemology (Somé, 1999) and Black feminist thought (Collins, 2002; hooks, 2001), values emotions, supports self-integration, disrupts colonial violence, and recognizes the collective energy of community (Sodhi, 2022). All actors within international education in Canada and beyond can draw on the framework to identify and dismantle barriers for international students. In light of what we have learned during the pandemic about global connections, it is imperative that we embrace this care-ethic framework to ensure healthy and sustainable international experiences in education.
Authors:
Myrtle Sodhi, York University, Canada
Sonia Martin, York University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Myrtle Sodhi is a University Doctoral Student at York University in Canada
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