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This chapter analyses how and why universities rely increasingly on third parties and middlemen to facilitate their international student recruitment. It considers the relationship between universities with recruitment agents and how they try to encourage these third parties to send students to them (as well as discussing some of the inherent risks within this process). It focuses in particular on the geographies of the international agents’ conference—hosted by some universities as an attempt to showcase all they can offer to international students. Consequently, it discusses these relationships, who universities work with, where they are based and why, as well as reflecting on how visa policy influences these industries.
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Beech, S.E. (2019). Recruiting Students: Developing Migration Industries. In: The Geographies of International Student Mobility. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7442-5_3
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