How does a university become international? In this chapter, Associate Professor and Director of IRI/PUC-Rio Isabel Rocha de Siqueira and IRI/PUC-Rio PhD student Nycolas Candido discuss how the practice of institutes and departments impacts the concept of internationalization of higher education and its possible applications.

With a focus on the Global South, Candido and Siqueira analyze measures implemented at the IRI itself to learn about the international experience of its student body. Among the main conclusions, the chapter identifies that historical inequalities between the Global North and South are reinforced and reinvented by concrete modes of internationalization, which calls for a critical and multidimensional conceptualization of the term.

The chapter is part of the collection “Contemporary Approaches to Internationalization in Higher Education” which can be accessed at the link below: