Declining Numbers of Foreign Students and America's Science and Engineering Enterprise

Author: Lowell, B. Lindsay

Source: International Migration, Volume 43, Number 3, August 2005 , pp. 155-160(6)

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Abstract:

The enterprise of science and engineering (S&E) is powerfully affected by the role of immigrants in institutions of higher education and in US labour markets (Freeman et al., 2004). Especially since the 1970s and increasingly in the 1990s, educational institutions and labour markets have experienced steady increases of foreign students and workers and have come to expect more of the same. Yet, since 2001 there have been notable downturns in the number of foreign students applying and attending US institutions of higher education.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2005.00329.x

Affiliations: 1: Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

Publication date: 2005-08-01