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CASTRO, Alda Araújo  e  CABRAL NETO, Antônio. Undergraduate schools: student mobility as a strategy for internationalization in Latin America. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2012, n.21, pp.69-96. ISSN 1645-7250.

Among the current policies for undergraduate schools, internationalization has emerged as an important strategy for the integration of countries in the globalized world either from the perspective of solidarity, advocated by UNESCO, either by mercantilist trend, advocated by the World Trade Organization. This article focuses on this theme, analyzing the main characteristics assumed in the process of internationalization of undergraduate schools, with emphasis on student mobility in different regions of the world, explaining how Latin America, and Brazil in particular, falls within that process. The article was based on literature review, documentary analysis and secondary data. The data on student mobility was provided by UNESCO, World Education Textbooks, concerning the years 2006 to 2010, and refer to the regions receiving and sending students abroad. Data analysis shows that the regions that receive more students, in the process of mobility are those where the countries are more developed and better inserted in the new global division of labor. Latin America is part of this process as being a peripheral area with poor reception and high sending students to other regions of the world, especially for the region of North America and Western Europe. This trend is also confirmed for Brazil, although this country stands with one of the best performers on the continent, a trend that was consolidated, as recently, Brazil has adopted strategies to enhance their integration through the implementation of programs and the creation of public universities aimed at regional integration.

Palavras-chave : undergraduate schools; internationalization; student mobility.

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