Ruiyi Li

Support your international colleagues by leaving an opposing comment by September 29: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE.... Your voice matters!

The AAAS SocSci Caucus is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three article awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Article, Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article, and Outstanding Tenured Faculty Research Article.

But good news is you can leave a comment at www.regulations.gov/document/ICE... and support your international colleagues by expressing your concerns of this ICEB-2025-0001 docket.

This Proposed Rule does more harm than this. 1) it shortens the grace period from 60 days to 30 days for intel students to find a job. 2) it forbids students who earned higher level degrees to enroll in a lower level one. 3) prohibiting changing programs for students pursuing grad degrees. And more

For most PhD programs, on average, it takes about 6~7 years to finish. When students have to renew their visa every 4 years, it means everyone will apply to the visa application 2 times now. Financially, it adds another 300$ ( Visa app fee) + international round trip+ accommodations (min 1500$).

3) the sole focus on international students’ economic contributions often, unintentionally, reinforces the objectification of international students as cash cows.

2) The emotional toll that comes from these changes is tremendously high. Imagining you live in a new country for 10 years and finally feeling comfortable enough to enjoy it, now all of sudden you’re told to start over again in a later stage of your life course.

I think it’s important to mention that, beyond their economic contribution, international students are also real people who have lived in the US quite long and built their lives here instead of transient sojourns. Being on F1 for almost my entire 20s, I have mixed feelings about what’s happening.

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have.

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ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds

These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.

Why?

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😅facing climate change, long term economic recession, advancement of AI, high living costs, declining political and social freedom, is it really surprising to anyone why Gen Z loves the idea of carpe diem?? You can’t take all their hope away and then blame them for being shortsighted.

The exclusion of Chinese was extremely violent. For many Asian immigrants, even Americans who’re Asian descents, rarely knew much about it. I even didn’t know more about this history until last year. Check this book out to learn more about the horrific past and its lingering effects on today.

This is terrible but it is also misleading. The US government is not the accreditor - they've basically written a letter to Columbia's *actual* accreditor and demanded that they take action.

Thank you to Michael Berry for convening us for a conversation on this timely topic - join us Thursday 6/5/2025

When I brought my Affogato to table, I asked all my friends (Americans) how to eat it. Everyone was unsure what’s the best way to it. Should I mix it or not? So I just scooped the ice cream from the espresso and ate bit by bit. We had to google it to find it out!

I actually had Affogato for the first time this April after living in the US for almost a decade. I even traveled to Italy once😅It was funny that even the part-time cashier asked her coworker how to make it after I ordered. Since then, I noticed the varieties of Affogato around me, ⬇️the Matcha one

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

It goes without saying but this is an incredibly stupid decision for a multitude of reasons, but primary among them is that there’s no rationale behind any of it. Just pure, bigoted, knee jerk stupidity.

Yes. NAFSA has data on international students' economic value breakdown by states. www.nafsa.org/policy-and-a...

Behind the Foxconn Uprising: “Gig Manufacturing” and the Politics of Social Reproduction | Section on Marxist Sociology Put together, these factors create a dilemma for these workers: dire need of cash income keeps propelling rural parents, who make a significant portion of the workforce, to come to work at Foxconn…

(2)Sociologists have explained why Foxconn can manage the laborers' productivity so well from various theoretical aspects. I attached one of the latest works on this issue here bc of the relevancy: marxistsociology.org/2023/03/behi...

As a Chinese woman who's from Zhengzhou, where the largest iPhone manufacturing plant is located, I'm shocked and mad to see ignorant racist analysis like this. If the author ever did any research, first of all, he would know that it’s the uncles and aunties who are producing iPhones (1)

Also, including international students attending all levels of programs, over a million students are currently studying in the US.

Okay I never like using international students’ economics contributions to justify their rights to receive an education in wherever they want. But these numbers still mean something. I don’t think American edu system can afford to lose international students over night.