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"The Past and Future of the Scientific Study of International Processes" published on by Oxford University Press.

German universities are evermore faced with the challenge of increasing their internationalization. An integral part of the internationalization strategy at many German universities is the opening of courses for international students. This aims at training and retaining international students for the German labour market as well as promoting the exchange between cultures. However, integrating international students into everyday life at German university is not easy. In addition to language skills, networking with local students is important to give international students orientation and social support in everyday student life, which may help them to complete their studies more successfully. Therefore, many universities offer programmes for intercultural exchange.The following article presents a successfully established programme at the TU Braunschweig, the SCOUT programme, to support and connect international students. The SCOUT programme allows international students adequate and structured support and a differentiated insight into studying at TU Braunschweig. At the same time, local students can systematically acquire intercultural skills within the programme. Thus, the SCOUT programme can serve as a model for similar activities at other universities.

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This article provides a general overview of international migration trends and types during the postwar period. Its thesis is that international migration consists of a set of spatial networks which share many of the processes that create them, but that the networks are characterized by factors which vary geographically and distinguish one from another. Fuller analysis of these requires a systems approach to provide a framework within which to study the processes that produce flow patterns. It concludes that our ability to forecast future world patterns of international migration must be based on an assessment of the likely behavior of the component macro-regional systems we can recognize.