MODELLING COUNTRY, CITY, AND INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL PREDICTORS OF INBOUND AFRICAN STUDENTS IN TÜRKİYE

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2025-8

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Tapırdamaz, Batuhan

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Global trends and path of International Student Mobility (ISM) unfold on an East-West axis, from the global South to the Global North (Barnett et al., 2016). Research on ISM in general focused on analyzing the overall trends and flows in ISM towards traditional destinations, while leaving out different geographies and patterns out of the focus. As several different studies indicate, Türkiye has emerged as a regional hub for international students despite being a semi-peripheral country. However, attracting great many students from African countries has sparked broad public discussions over the phenomenon of inbound African students, which questions the ISM phenomenon v in Türkiye in general. To investigate this phenomenon under a push-pull framework, a multi-level model was constructed. The outcome variable was chosen to be the total number of students in an institution, nested inside a city, from a particular African country, at a certain year. The results suggest that, overall, city socio-economic development and same-nation network effects best predict the number of African international students in Türkiye. An investigation into smaller samples of the data also reveals that public universities are influenced by academic performance and student satisfaction, while foundation universities, on the other hand, are very strongly and positively influenced by city-level factors. On the other hand, the occurrences of “internationalization” in internal evaluation reports reveal a negative correlation, while “international student” indicates a positive correlation for almost all of the models. Additionally, a general preference for universities that are not struggling to fill their available spots is observed. Keywords: International Student Mobility, Student Mobility of Africa, Student Mobility in Turkey, Regional hubs

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International Student Mobility, Student Mobility of Africa, Student Mobility in Turkey, Regional hubs

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115519

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis