Introduction

I want to thank you for bringing me here today very generously and to Maria for the ethnic support to make this happen. It is wonderful to be back to Oxford after four or so years since I graduated in 2014. So basically what I want to do in today's paper is really to make the case for understanding the global, a mixed case for understanding international student mobility as a form of reproduction migration. To illustrate my empirical case as you will see here is that of China. He will attempt to locate China's place in a global landscape of student mobility and examine the multiple reproductive consequences of China's engagement in this global system. And then he makes the theoretical case for understanding ISM as a reproductive