INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND THEIR RESILIENCE DURING THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC A CASE STUDY OF JAPAN
cl https://doi.org/10.24412/2181-1784-2022-22-62-69
KANAI Tatsuya
tatsuyakanai27@gmail.com ^^ ^^ AKASHI Junichi akashi.j unichi.fu@u.tsukuba.ac.jp ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has long affected different groups who move or have moved across borders. Among such vulnerable groups are international students, who have been negatively affected by the pandemic from early 2020 to the present. Highlighting a 2020 case study involving a national university in Japan, this qualitative study examines the hardship faced by international students during the COVID-19 pandemic and explains their attempts to overcome such challenges. Using data from 32 in-depth interviews with mainly graduate-level international students, this study establishes four categories of difficulties: living conditions, mental and human relationships, study environments, and future prospects, which includes career-related perspectives. Moreover, this study demonstrates that while it has confirmed most challenges addressed in the existing literature, international students have shown resilience in their attempts to surmount such difficulties. In other words, most students suffering from constraints on social behaviors and isolation have struggled to complete academic tasks, specifically continuing research and thesis writing. The current study further indicates the importance of improving the university environment to ensure that international students have access to public support and opportunities to communicate with others, ideally face-to-face. Future studies are needed to mediate the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on students who study overseas.
Keywords: Covid-19, International Students, Japan)
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