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Overview

Johanna Waters is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly falls within the Social Sciences, with a focus on multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Education, Communication, and Demography.

Their main research topics address contemporary issues surrounding higher education and international mobility. These topics include:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

Waters has contributed to a range of recent publications, demonstrating engagement with scholarly debates in education and migration studies. Notable papers include the following:

  • Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding 'the international' in studies of international student mobility, 2022, Oxford Review of Education
  • INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF DIASPORA, 2021, British Journal of Educational Studies
  • An analysis of the UK's Turing Scheme as a response to socio-economic and geo-political challenges, 2023, Higher Education
  • Making ways for 'better education': Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry, 2021, Urban Studies
  • Bridging home and school in cross-border education: The role of intermediary spaces in the in/exclusion of Mainland Chinese students and their families in Hong Kong, 2022, Urban Studies

Waters frequently collaborates with several scholars in their field, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches and extensive networking. Regular co-authors include:

  • Rachel Brooks
  • Maggi W.H. Leung
  • Jihyun Lee
  • Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
  • Lene Møller Madsen

Their publications appear repeatedly in prominent academic venues such as Social & Cultural Geography, Population Space and Place, Urban Studies, Migration and Society, and Oxford Review of Education. This range signals a consistent engagement with geographic, social, and migration-related dimensions of education and mobility.

Best Publications

  • Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna L. Waters

  • Geographies of cultural capital: education, international migration and family strategies between Hong Kong and Canada

    Johanna L Waters

  • Transnational family strategies and education in the contemporary Chinese diaspora

    Johanna L. Waters

  • Flexible families? 'Astronaut' households and the experiences of lone mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia

    Johanna L. Waters

  • Social Networks and Educational Mobility: the experiences of UK students

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna Waters

  • Geographies of International Education: Mobilities and the Reproduction of Social (Dis)advantage

    Johanna L. Waters

  • Accidental achievers? International higher education, class reproduction and privilege in the experiences of UK students overseas

    Johanna Waters;Rachel Brooks

  • Flexible citizens? Transnationalism and citizenship amongst economic immigrants in Vancouver

    Johanna Waters

  • Emergent Geographies of International Education and Social Exclusion

    Johanna L Waters

  • A Second Chance at ‘Success’ UK Students and Global Circuits of Higher Education

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna Waters

  • Introduction: spatialities of transnational networks

    David Featherstone;Richard Phillips;Johanna Waters

  • ‘Roundabout routes and sanctuary schools’: the role of situated educational practices and habitus in the creation of transnational professionals

    Johanna L. Waters

  • International higher education and the mobility of UK students

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna Waters

  • Youthful escapes? British students, overseas education and the pursuit of happiness

    Johanna Waters;Rachel Brooks;Helena Pimlott-Wilson

  • ‘Vive la différence?’: The ‘international’ experiences of UK students overseas

    Johanna Waters;Rachel Brooks

  • International education and the employability of UK students

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna Waters;Helena Pimlott-Wilson

  • In Pursuit of Scarcity: Transnational Students, ‘Employability’, and the MBA

    Johanna L Waters

  • A Colourful University Life? Transnational Higher Education and the Spatial Dimensions of Institutional Social Capital in Hong Kong

    Johanna Waters;Maggi Leung

  • Becoming a father, missing a wife: Chinese transnational families and the male experience of lone parenting in Canada

    Johanna L. Waters

  • The Hidden Internationalism of Elite English Schools

    Rachel Brooks;Johanna Waters

  • Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis

    Johanna L. Waters

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison

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