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Most people are not very mobile. And the vast majority of the roughly 40 million who are do so because they are forced to become refugees. Most people undertaking higher education also live and study only inside their own countries, and today of the 192 sovereign states who are members of the United Nations, in only twenty does the enrollment of international students exceed 1 percent. For the United States, that proportion is just under 4 percent and yet the United States is and has been the leading destination for international students and scholars for half a century.
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Goodman, A.E., Gutierrez, R. (2011). The International Dimension of U.S. Higher Education: Trends and New Perspectives. In: Bhandari, R., Blumenthal, P. (eds) International Students and Global Mobility in Higher Education. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117143_5
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