JCIHE: Vol. 16, Issue 3, Special Summer Issue Introduction

The Effect of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on International Mobility and Internationalization in Post-Soviet Eurasia and Beyond.As JCIHE continues to broaden our inclusion of articles from throughout the world, an emphasis on Post-Soviet Eurasia covers many different contexts of importance for mobility, internationalization, and partnerships.Issue 16(3) 2024 also includes five Independent Submissions on innovative topics that deepen the understanding of international and comparative higher education in countries around the world.The Summer Special Issue The Effect of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on International Mobility and Internationalization in Post-Soviet Eurasia and Beyond has as the guest editor, Aliya Kuzhabekova, from University of Calgary, Canada.In this Special Issue, articles explore the geopolitical, educational, and internationalization impacts from the war in Ukraine.This crisis has had widespread disruptions in international higher education impacting international research collaborations, institutional partnership, and mobility flows for both in-bound and out-bound.Refugee mobility and immigration are another outcome of the crisis.As shown in the articles, the crisis impacts countries throughout post-Soviet Eurasia, neighboring countries, and those countries in Europe and North America that are receiving immigrants and refugees.JCIHE is an open access, independent, double-blinded peer-reviewed international journal publishing original contributions to the field of comparative and international higher education.The JCIHE is the official journal of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Higher Education Special Interest Group (HESIG).The mission of the journal is to serve as a place to share new thinking on analysis, theory, policy, and practice, and to encourage reflective and critical thinking on issues that influence comparative and international higher education.JCIHE showcases new and diverse international research that uses rigorous methodology that focuses on theory, policy, practice, critical analysis, and development analysis of issues that influence higher education.JCIHE has as its core principles: a) comparative research; b) engagement with theory; and c) diverse voices in terms of authorship.