Main group 1

• Addley, Camilla, The Rise of International Large-scale Assessments and Rationales for participation, Part of: Compare., vol. 47, no. 3, 2017, p. 434–452Compulsory*
• Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine et al., Exploring the peculiar relationship between higher education quality and internationalization: a discourse analytical and spatial reading of four European university strategies, Part of: Nordic journal of studies in educational policy: Nordstep, 2025, p. 1–15, Link to PDFCompulsory*
• Beech, Jason et al., 'Cosmopolitan start-up' capital: mobility and school choices of global middle class parents, Part of: Cambridge journal of education., vol. 51, no. 4, 2021, p. 527–541, Link to PDFCompulsory*
• Brooks, Rachel, The Hidden Internationalism of Elite English Schools, Part of: Sociology., vol. 49, no. 2, 2015, p. 212–228Compulsory*
• Börjesson, Mikael, The Global Space of International Students, Part of: Journal of ethnic and migration studies., vol. 43, no. 8, 2017, p. 1256–1275Compulsory*
• Börjesson, Mikael; Bryntesson, André; Haru, Ashley, Swedish Erasmus students' valuations of study destinations: How countries, cities, and institutions relate to choices and experiences, Routledge, 2024Compulsory*
• Carlson, Sören, Becoming a Mobile Student - a Processual Perspective on German Degree Student Mobility: Becoming a Mobile Student - a Processual Perspective, Part of: Population, space and place, vol. 19, no. 2, 2013, p. 168–180Compulsory*
• Engwall, Lars, Internationalization in higher education and research: perspectives, obstacles, alternatives, Cham, Springer, [2023]Compulsory*
• Findlay, Allan M., An Assessment of Supply and Demand-side Theorization of International Student Mobility, Part of: International migration., vol. 49, no. 2, 2011, p. 162–190Compulsory*
• Findlay, A. et al., 'It was always the plan': international study as 'learning to migrate', Part of: Area: published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographer), vol. 49, 2017, p. 192–199Compulsory*
• Ginnerskov-Dahlberg, Mette, Inherited dreams of 'the West': Eastern European students' paths to Denmark, Part of: The Palgrave handbook of youth mobility and educational migration, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021Compulsory*
• Ginnerskov-Dahlberg, Mette, Towards a safe haven: Students from post‐Soviet countries pursuing education in Sweden during the COVID‐19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, 2024Compulsory*
• Hayden, Mary, Transnational Spaces of Education: the Growth of the International School Sector, Part of: Globalisation, societies and education., vol. 9, no. 2, 2011, p. 211–224Compulsory*
• Hogan, Anna, Commercialising Comparison: Pearson puts the TLC in Soft Capitalism, Part of: Journal of education policy, vol. 31, no. 3, 2016, p. 243–258Compulsory*
• Kölbel, Andrea, Imaginative geographies of international student mobility, Part of: Social & cultural geography., vol. 21, no. 1, 2018, p. 86–104, Link to PDFCompulsory*
• Lillo Cea, Pablo Antonio, The World-Class Ordination: A Field Theory Approach to the Study of Global University Rankings, Uppsala, Uppsala Universitet, [2024]Compulsory* (Chapter 1 and 4)
• Marginson, Simon, Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education, Part of: Higher Education, no. 52, 2006, p. 1–39Compulsory*
• Mulvey, Benjamin, International Higher Education and Public Diplomacy: A Case Study of Ugandan Graduates from Chinese Universities, Part of: Higher education policy: the quarterly journal of the International Association of Universities, IAU, vol. 33, 2020, p. 459–477, Link to PDFCompulsory*
• Rahimi, Mark, Transnational secondary schooling and im/mobileinternational students, Part of: Australian educational researcher, no. 44, 2017, p. 299–321Compulsory*
• Robertson, Shanthi, Lives in limbo: Migration experiences in Australia's education-migration nexus, Part of: Ethnicities., no. 14, 2014, p. 208–226Compulsory*
• Rönnberg, Linda, From National Policy-making to Global Edubusiness: Swedish edu-preneurs on the Move, Part of: Journal of education policy, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, p. 234–249Compulsory*
• Sassen, Saskia, Sociology of globalization, New York, W.W. Norton, 2006Compulsory*
• Verger, Antoni, The Emerging Global Education Industry: Analysing Market-making in Education through Market Sociology, Part of: Globalisation, societies and education., vol. 15, no. 3, 2017, p. 325–340Compulsory*
• Waddling, Jennifer, Struggling with Capital: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Educational Strategies among Internationally Mobile Middle Class Families in Sweden, Part of: Discourse: studies in cultural politics of education, vol. 0, no. 0, 2019, p. 1–20Compulsory*
• Wagner, Anne Catherine, The Internationalization of Elite Education: Merging Angles of Analysis and Building a Research Object, Part of: Researching elites and power: theory, methods, analyses / edited by Francois Denord, Mikael Palme, Bertrand Réau, uuuu-uuuu, Link to PDFCompulsory* (Chapter 15 pp. 193–200)
• Waters, Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities, Springer International Publishing, 2021Compulsory*
• Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke, Degree Mobility from the Nordic Countries: Background and Employability, Part of: Journal of studies in international education., vol. 17, no. 4, 2013, p. 471–491Compulsory*
• Yang, Peidong, Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: the ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university, Part of: Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, vol. 39, no. 5, 2018, p. 694–708, Link to PDFCompulsory*

In addition, around 100 pages are added according to the teacher's instructions.

Course literature comprises about 1000 pages for a 7,5 ECTS course and about 2000 pages for a 15 ECTS course.

* Compulsory