Different frameworks, similar outcomes: comparing Australia and New Zealand

Abstract

International education is a global market. Many nation-states regulate the welfare experience of incoming international students through formal regulation, students self-regulate and they are regulated by informal means through trans-national social and family networks. The central objective of this book is to conduct a comparative analysis of the Australian and New Zealand regimes of international student welfare regulation and to explore the international and global implications of the two regimes. Regulation theory provides the analytical framework and empirical evidence was gathered using in-depth interviews with 200 students in Australia, 70 students in New Zealand and 24 service provi..