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"This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to undiferstand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (MEB) as a case study, a catalyst and a context, this collection critically explores some of the complex historical and contemporary push-pull politics and factors shaping Malaysia's education system, its reform and the experience of Malaysians--and others--within it. The authors in this volume focus on the interplay of neoliberalism, nationalism, ethnic and cultural politics in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Their work captures and seeks to undiferstand the enduring, though changing, hierarchy of access and differentiated rights to educational, social and economic resources and opportunities experienced by different individuals and collectives, including those involved in the neoliberal enterprise of international education. It looks at how inequities have been re-configured in different educational spaces in Malaysia, and at how these inequities have been addressed through reform policies and practices. The book will be a shaper and critical contributor to the assessment of the Malaysian Education Blueprint and related policies. It will also have widifer relevance globally as a critical approach to policy discussion."--

This chapter considers the significance of African international students in Malaysia's higher education in reference to Malaysia's economic and foreign policy. It presents the ideals of South–South cooperation have been reinvested with meaning and urgency because of the 60th anniversary of the Bandung conference in 2015. The anti-racist stance was not only a show of political solidarity with South Africa, it was also part of South–South initiatives where Malaysia pledged economic support for developing economies, many of which were African. Inherent in the racialized structure of Malaysian society and the racialization of African students as a symbol of diversity in Malaysia's higher education is the potential for discrimination based on race, as has been experienced by numerous African students. Malaysia's higher education sector has been built upon an image of anti-racism and solidarity. The development of Malaysia's private higher education sector has thus benefitted from the increased political and economic ties with African countries.