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Post-Brexit Student Mobilities
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21 April 2026

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Since the UK’s dramatic departure from the European Union, student mobility has become a frontline issue in the reshaping of higher education.
This book investigates how cross-border movement into and out of the UK has been transformed in the wake of Brexit. Drawing on extensive empirical data, the book explores changing mobility patterns, the rise of new infrastructures and the politics surrounding schemes like Turing. It critically examines how government policies and stakeholder responses are redefining international education.
This is a vital resource for researchers, policy makers and practitioners navigating the evolving landscape of global student mobility.
'A decade after the referendum, this timely book makes an important contribution to debates on both international student mobility and the impact of Brexit on higher education. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of higher education, policy studies and the sociology and geography of education.' Paul Wakeling, University of York
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Higher Education and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford.
Johanna Waters is Professor of Human Geography and co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at University College London. She is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford and an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
1. Introduction
2. Changing Connections with Europe: Whole-Degree Mobilities
3. Rescaling Relations: Within-Degree Mobilities
4. Time, Temporalities and Widening Participation
5. New Migration Infrastructures
6. Spatial Imaginaries
7. Conclusion