Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: BackgroundThe novel Coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, at the end of 2019 and spread rapidly.The worldwide impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been significant, ranging from the social, political, cultural to economic domains.The disruptive effects of the COVID-19 outbreak have effected almost all sectors of society and higher education is no exception.The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the mobility of international students in various ways.It has not only brought a huge change in terms of the number of inbound and outbound international students but also had a tremendous impact on each individual international student's learning experiences and living condition in the host countries.In addition to adjusting to a foreign culture, a series of draconian policies and constant changes in those, hate crimes during the pandemic have put international students in an even more vulnerable position.International students are those who received their prior education in another country and are not residents of their current country of study (OECD, 2019) .In average across OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, international students account for 6% of total enrolment in tertiary programs (post-secondary education received at universities and colleges) (OECD, 2019) .International students studying abroad is heavily influenced by the government foreign student acceptance policy of the host countries and natural disaster such as earthquakes and pandemic.OECD (2021) reported that in 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries and economies were locked out of their schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic and students all over the world have been faced with schools that were open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning.Aucejo et al. (2020) pointed out that university students faced an increasingly uncertain environment, where financial and health shocks to students, along with the transition to online learning may have affected their academic performance, educational plans, current labor market participation, and expectations about future employment.International students are no exception.All international students have been put in an unstable situation and they had to cope with the day-to-day change on top of all the difficulties they have already faced as international students.While, university students must adapt to their new educational 〔Materials〕 -155 -千葉商大紀要 第 60 巻 第 3 号(2023 年 3 月)pp.155-170 and social environment, international students face heightened demands compared to domestic students (Arthur, 2004) .In the United States, Asian international students encounter a variety of acculturative stressors, including language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and racial discrimination; they also often experience a loss of social support because the distance from their social support network in their home counties (Yakunina & McCarthy, 2011) .On top of those existing difficulties and challenges for international students, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of new challenges to all the international students around the world.As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, there has been various research shedding light on the impact on international students.However, amongst the myriad of different papers and perspectives on regarding the pandemic and university impact, there are still few review papers to overview the existing studies and discuss the topic comprehensively in an integrated manner.Therefore, this paper aims to provide an overview of the existing research on topic of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international students during the first 2 years pandemic, and in doing so, we hope to provide some practical insights from an integrated perspective.This will not only help researchers to grasp the situation that international students are facing but will also provide hints to the necessary support that required by international students to university faculty, administration, and policy makers. MethodThis paper undertakes a review of the currently available literature pertinent to the impacts of COVID-19 on international students.Electronic database PsycINFO and ERIC were used for researching related research paper.In May of 2022, "COVID-19 " AND "international students" were put in at the same time as a search string to gather paper written in English relevant to this topic.Papers that included both two keywords would be found as the initial target review papers of our search.The year of publication is not limited, but due to the recent nature of the paper and the pandemic, search results for the keywords were limited to recent 2 years.As a result, 75 research paper were obtained based on the search from PsycINFO and ERIC.We examined each paper and excluded the papers that do not match the purpose of this paper, such as paper only focuses on higher education, governments and universities' responses.Finally, 15 researched papers were selected as the target of review. Result and Discussion Travel restrictions, stay-at-home and their impactsA significant number of countries in the world closed their borders to prevent the importation of the COVID-19 virus right after the World Health Organization (WHO)
Authors: BERRY, Brian David, AN, Tingting
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7145473197