This article reflects on the possible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on international student mobilities and higher education systems. Celebrated as a ‘success’ story of a mutually beneficial globalisation, international higher education as we have known it is unravelling and reassembling. We offer an overview of the material changes and public discourses that are reframing student mobilities and higher education from three Anglophone positions involving Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. The authors interrogate the amplified role of digital infrastructures in remaking international higher education, through border management practices and digital learning strategies. We outline changes at the urban scale that are starting to take hold from the stasis in student mobilities. We also speculate on emerging modalities of international higher education and their accompanying economies of opportunities and vulnerabilities. Our reflections take seriously calls to understand the wide-reaching implications of an invisible, border-crossing microbe, and interrupt the impulse to resurrect what came before the pandemic. It is in this spirit of thoughtful reflection to stop rebuilding ‘more of the same’ that we interrogate novel border rationalities and market making, which are being called on in work to govern space–time and subjects in a fragile post-COVID world.

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传染病中的国际学生流动：（Im）动员高等教育？

本文反思了 COVID-19 大流行对国际学生流动性和高等教育系统的可能影响。众所周知，作为互利全球化的“成功”故事，国际高等教育正在瓦解和重组。我们从涉及澳大利亚、新加坡和新西兰的三个讲英语的职位中，概述了正在重塑学生流动性和高等教育的重大变化和公共话语。作者通过边境管理实践和数字学习策略，探讨了数字基础设施在重塑国际高等教育中的放大作用。我们概述了城市规模的变化，这些变化开始从学生流动的停滞中产生。我们还推测了国际高等教育的新兴模式及其伴随的机会和脆弱性经济。我们的思考认真地呼吁了解一种无形的跨界微生物的广泛影响，并打断使大流行之前发生的事情复活的冲动。正是本着这种深思熟虑的精神，停止重建“更多相同”，我们审问了新的边界理性和做市商，它们在工作中被要求在脆弱的后 COVID 世界中管理时空和主题。