This must-read book combines carefully selected contributions to form a collective scholarly critique of existing research with international students, focusing on key critical and conceptual considerations for research where international students are participants or co-researchers.

Jenna Mittelmeier is Senior Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester, UK.

Sylvie Lomer is Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Practice at the University of Manchester, UK.

Kalyani Unkule is Associate Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, India and Visiting Professor with the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University, USA, ISDE Law School, Spain and Stockholm University Faculty of Law, Sweden.

Section 1: How is current research positioned? 1. Working towards inclusive definitions of international students: Reflecting, refiguring, reconceptualising as international students and researchers 2. Mapping the subfield of existing research with international students Section 2: What inhibits critical research? 3. Unpacking the devaluation of international students and moving towards the humanisation of international students' experiences 4. Stereotypes of international students: Reflecting on our scholarly responsibilities through conceptual framings 5. Causes, mechanisms and consequences of Othering international students in higher education 6. Coloniality of power and research with international students 7. Deficit narratives in research on international students Section 3: How can understandings of international students be made more complex? 8. Developing complex narratives about international students 9. Calling race into research with international students: Confronting omissions 10. Intersectional issues in research with disabled international students 11. Breaking binaries, engendering multiplicity: Decolonizing and queering research with international students 12. Bringing gender into research with international students 13. From privilege to differentiation: International students' class reworkings Section 4: What concepts are assumed? 14. Conceptualising to transcend: Glocal imaginaries and international students 15. Conceputalising 'mobilities' in research with international students 16. Re-conceptualising multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of international students and significant others 17. International students and language: From individual 'deficiency' to instrument of oppression 18. Seeing international students: Challenging the culture trap 19. Revisiting the conceptualisation of intercultural relationships in research with international students Section 5: How can research be designed better? 20. Reflecting on international students and researcher positionality 21. A decolonial praxis for research with international students 22. It's only fiction until it exists: Co-designing research with international students 23. Reflecting on international students' voices and experiences in qualitative data: A narrative approach 24. Conducting critical quantitative research with international students 25. Linguistic diversity in research with and by international students: Considerations for research design and practice 26. Re-centring constructions of international students in writing: The 'empire writes back'