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María Cristina Parra Sandoval
El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación exploratoria cuyo objetivo general fue analizar el movimiento de venezolanos y mexicanos que han emigrado (temporal o definitivamente) a Canadá para realizar estudios de posgrado. Se identificaron cinco universidades canadienses que reciben el mayor número de estudiantes de posgrado de Venezuela y de México. Se analizó la política canadiense de internacionalización y reclutamiento de estudiantes extranjeros. Se entrevistó a estudiantes y egresados de posgrado que decidieron permanecer en Canadá y se obtuvo información de los que han regresado a sus países. Para los venezolanos y mexicanos que se graduaron, la razón para haber elegido a Canadá para su estudio de posgrado está asociada al prestigio de la universidad seleccionada y a la existencia de un grupo de investigación en su área de interés; el respaldo económico ofrecido a los estudiantes de posgrado en Canadá y, en algunos casos, por razones personales.
The objective of this paper is to report an exploratory research whose general objective was to analyze the movement of Venezuelans and Mexicans who have immigrated (temporarily or definitively) to Canada for graduate studies in that country. The economic value of knowledge, the development of information and communication technologies, the expansion of higher education, the new providers of higher education and the strengthening of so-called world-class universities are some of the elements marking the singularity of this epoch and the internationalization process. Five Canadian universities were identified that receive the greatest number of graduate students from Venezuela and Mexico. Documents were collected and analyzed that express Canadian policy with regard to internationalization and foreign student recruitment. Venezuelan and Mexican graduate students and students who have graduated and decided to remain in Canada were interviewed. Information was requested from Venezuelan and Mexican graduates who have returned to their countries. For Mexicans and Venezuelans who graduate their reasons for having chosen Canada for graduate studies are connected to the prestige of the selected university and the existence of some research group in their area of interest, the economic support offered to graduate students at Canadian universities and, in some cases, personal reasons.
