Résumés
Abstract
A growing body of scholarship reveals that racialized international students in the West are disproportionately vulnerable to exploitation and violence on and off university and college campuses, and in public and private spaces. This harm may be due to the actions of individuals (such as landlords, employers, fellow international students, non-international student classmates, professors, strangers, and members of their ethnic communities), as well as the policies and inaction of institutions and governments. These institutional and systemic factors include precarious immigration status and visa and immigration requirements, unregulated homestay programs, unregulated tuition fees, and the intersections of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. This paper draws on interviews with racialized international students and university employees who provide services to international students at a comprehensive university in Ontario, Canada, and argues that the everyday and structural violence the students may face is best understood as constitutive of the violence of White settler colonialism.
Keywords:
- racism,
- sexual violence,
- international students,
- settler colonialism,
- internationalization
Résumé
De plus en plus d’études révèlent que les étudiants internationaux racialisés vivant en Occident sont disproportionnément vulnérables à l’exploitation et à la violence sur les, et hors des campus universitaires et collégiaux, ainsi que dans les espaces publics et privés. Ce préjudice peut être dû à des actions individuelles (de la part de propriétaires, d’employeurs, d’étudiants étrangers, de camarades de classe non étrangers, de professeurs, d’étrangers et de membres de leur communauté ethnique), ainsi qu’aux politiques et à l’inaction des institutions et des gouvernements. Ces facteurs institutionnels et systémiques comprennent la précarité du statut d’immigrant et des exigences en matière de visa et d’immigration, les programmes d’accueil en famille non réglementés, les frais de scolarité non réglementés et les intersections du racisme, du sexisme, de la xénophobie et de l’islamophobie. Cet article s’appuie sur des entretiens avec des étudiants internationaux racialisés et des employés de l’université qui fournissent des services aux étudiants internationaux dans une université polyvalente de l’Ontario, au Canada, et soutient que la violence quotidienne et structurelle à laquelle les étudiants peuvent être confrontés est mieux comprise comme étant un élément fondamental de la violence du colonialisme de peuplement blanc.
Mots-clés :
- racisme,
- violence sexuelle,
- étudiants internationaux,
- colonialisme de peuplement,
- internationalisation
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