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(Un)Wanted: Social Constructions of International Students in New Zealand
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.International students are critical to tertiary education and skilled migration in New Zealand. In 2017, up to 19.6% of tertiary students in New Zealand were international students (OECD, 2019b). 45% of international students gain a post-study work visa, and 28% progress to residency within five years of finishing their studies (Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, 2018r). Given these considerations, this thesis seeks to investigate how public policy understands international students as a target group in New Zealand, and how this informs the current policy context.
There is an extensive literature about international students in policy in other countries, but less so about New Zealand. This thesis seeks to fill this gap by analysing policy pertaining to international students in New Zealand from 2017 to 2019. It is underpinned by Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram’s social construction and policy design theory, which postulates that social constructions of target groups embedded in policy design predict how burdens and benefits are delivered to said groups (Schneider & Ingram, 1993; Schneider et al., 2014).
Several coexisting and contradictory constructions of international students emerge. The power of international students is tied to their economic contributions to New Zealand, while positive or negative depictions of them are contingent on their ability to advance New Zealand’s interests. International students in New Zealand are positively constructed as soft power resources and as powerful consumers that New Zealand needs, but there is awareness of their vulnerability as young migrants. Students in degree programmes are deemed worthy migrants, while international students in below-degree programmes are constructed as undeserving backdoor migrants. Certain types of international students are preferred over others, and these hierarchies stem from policy objectives and the unintended consequences of previous policies. Overall, social constructions of international students in New Zealand are linked to the marketisation of tertiary education and the rise of skilled migration
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Neither Within Nor Without: The Curious Case of U.S. Citizenship in American Samoa and the Insular Cases
No full textThis Article considers the problematic notion of citizenship rights among colonized Pacific Island Peoples since the nineteenth century. In particular, this Article reviews these rights for American Samoans in light of the recent Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision Fitisemanu v. United States. In Fitisemanu, the Tenth Circuit, relying on a repurposed notion of the Insular Cases, denied American citizenship rights to native born American Samoans despite the guarantees extended to individuals "born or naturalized in the United States" under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Article argues that this decision inappropriately narrowed the application of the Fourteenth Amendment with its extended application of the Insular Cases' fact-based "impractical and anomalous" inquiry to conclude the federal government's efforts to provide local government and fa'a Samoa was in effect a recognition of American Samoa's right of self-determination such that the objections of the territorial government to these citizenship rights militated against the recognition of citizenship. In the process of this discussion, this Article considers how substantially similar issues regarding New Zealand and British citizenship were implicated in the context of Western Samoa in Lesa v. Attorney General of New Zealand. The circumstances surrounding these cases involve similar legal and policy arguments which have perpetuated the "subject" status of colonized peoples and the initial denial of equality and citizenship rights. This underscores the historical resistance of colonial states to extend full membership rights to their colonized subjects. We contend that the effect of the Insular Cases' framework, despite claims to the contrary, has not protected Indigenous culture from American cultural and constitutional hegemony but continues to deny full legal membership into the political community that enjoys full sovereignty over the land of their birth
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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