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Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 2024 August 14 to 18, 2024, St. John's Session Title: Geographies of International Students Session Type: Regular Talk (15-minute); in-person. *Note: we also welcome Poster submissions (see below). Organizers: E. Alkim Karaagac, Queen's University); Dan Cohen (Queen's University), Sutama Ghosh (Toronto Metropolitan University), Yolande Pottie-Sherman (Memorial University), Nancy Worth (University of Waterloo) Rationale: This special session will bring together scholars concerned with the geographies of educational migration in Canada and beyond. The existing policy environment for international students is contentious. While governments announce ambitious targets to increase the value of education exports and the total number of incoming international students, they also implement more demanding measures to control students' entry and existence in host countries, fostering differential exclusion of international students alongside other temporary migrants. The contrast between the growing contributions of international students to host economies and the deepening abstraction and invisibility of their everyday lives poses critical questions for geographers. In this Special Session, we welcome contributions that might include (but are not limited to) critical theoretical, empirical and methodological engagements with contemporary educational mobilities, international students' everyday subjectivities and intersectional identities, geographies of housing and labour, and educational migration markets. We welcome submissions from students, early career scholars and those in established posts. We especially encourage contributions from under-represented groups, people working in the Global South or who have lived experiences of listed themes and topics. This Special Session will begin a conversation that will continue at the 2024 Royal Geographical Society Annual conference in London (August 27-30). Please send paper abstracts (max 250 words), including the title of the proposed contribution, name of author(s), affiliation (e.g., Memorial University), role (e.g., student, faculty, professional, or other), and contact information to Yolande Pottie-Sherman (ypottiesh...@mun.ca<mailto:ypottiesh...@mun.ca>) by Wednesday, April 17th. We will notify participants by April 23rd (e.g., in advance of the CAG conference's April 27th early bird deadline). *Considering submitting a Poster? Posters selected for this special session on the 'Geographies of International Students' will be grouped together during the conference's poster session, and indicated as part of our session in the program. Please indicate your preference when submitting your proposal. Thank you very much, Session organizers: E. Alkim Karaagac (Queen's University); Dan Cohen (Queen's University), Sutama Ghosh (Toronto Metropolitan University), Yolande Pottie-Sherman (Memorial University), Nancy Worth (University of Waterloo)
