Politics of ambivalent hospitality

In the United States, federal policies have long shaped the conditions under which international students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are recruited and retained. Prior scholarship, however, has often portrayed these policies primarily as hostile to these students. In this critical integrative literature review, I examine how federal policies have positioned international STEM students from the post–World War II era to the 2020s. Drawing on a post/decolonial lens,