Voices From the Periphery: Lived Experiences of Women International Students From the Global South Studying at U.K. Universities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intersectional perspectives on International Student Mobility are burgeoning; however gendered aspects are rarely examined. This paper offers a contribution to this lacuna and provides further understanding of how gender shaped the experiences of six women international students from the Global South. The women participated in semi-structured interviews as part of a wider study analysing ISM in relation to socio-economic status (SES). The women could be seen to be aligned with the ‘post-feminist neoliberal subject’ with evidence of making choices, a desire for financial independence and strong career aspirations. However, life stage and home country cultures intersected with transnational caring for four of the women. This resulted in a re-alignment of ‘success’ upon completion of educational opportunities which reflect gendered inequalities in society. This suggests that there can be a clash of the imagined future identity of a ‘strong independent career woman’ with naturalised aspects of femininity for women international students.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".