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An open letter to UWA from a former international student and UWAP author

Dear Mr. Tayyeb Shah,

I came to Australia as an international student from Mumbai, India in 1998. One reason that attracted me to Australian institutions of higher education was their commitment to creativity, to intellectual rigour and to encouraging a plurality of ideas.

I wrote a book of short stories called The Permanent Resident, mainly to chronicle the lives of Indians in Australia, including the lives of international students. This book is published by UWAP. It has since won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2018 (Multicultural), been very well-reviewed in Australia and India, is on the syllabi of a number of universities and on several “must-read” booklists. This would not have happened without UWAP, particularly Terri-ann White, championing my book.

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07/12/18 Arts & Culture , Australia , Diaspora & Travel , Society & Politics # Australia, China, Colombo Plan, export, Hegel, India, International students, Maria Elena Indelicato, Meeta Chatterjee Padmanabhan, orientalism, race, racism, universities

From Hegel to the Cold War: Asian-Century Orientalism and International Students in Australia

By Maria Elena Indelicato

Australia has been at the forefront of international education. It is at her shores that internationalisation as a fully-fledged policy was first introduced in the global reality of higher education in 1992. Significantly, the then Minister for Employment, Education and Training, Kim Beazley, launched the policy to counter the overseas criticism that Australia’s approach to international education ‘was too narrowly commercial.’ The birth of internationalisation is in fact tied to the commercialisation of higher education in the late 1980s, when Australian universities and colleges were allowed to provide full-cost courses designed for international students. Since then, academic and grey policy-oriented studies which try to determine international students’ market choices and needs have proliferated, leaving very little room to discuss issues surrounding the presence of international students in Australia otherwise. Discourses of economic necessity have thus overdetermined the ways in which we think of, talk about and, ultimately, relate to international students at academic and policy levels.

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An open letter to UWA from a former international student and UWAP author

From Hegel to the Cold War: Asian-Century Orientalism and International Students in Australia

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