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Higher education, English, and the idea

of ‘the West’: globalizing and

encountering a global south regional

university

Phan Le Ha 

Published online: 09 Mar 2018

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ABSTRACT

This article is about ‘global south’ actors and global south–global south interactions

in the context of the internationalization of higher education (IHE), with a focus on a Vietnamese university and the mobilities of students moving through this

educational space It discusses in what ways this university sees its multi-layered

association with the Philippines as a bridge, a catalyst that could ful ll its aspirations for internationalization which is largely attached to English, ‘the West’, the idea of

‘the West’, and becoming global The article shows how the participation in and

consumption of such aspirations/desires by new IHE players could reproduce and widen social inequalities between and within ‘global south’ actors but also bring

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