ABSTRACT
The work adopts the thesis that migration is also a process of production of information, knowledge and difference. In this sense, a very specific reality is investigated in the broad panorama of human mobility: the international student movements to Brazil. Sustained by theorizations around the production of difference and the autonomy of migration, foreign students are analyzed as migrants. Qualitative data submitted to Content Analysis were collected from thirty-five foreign students from African, South American, Caribbean and European countries. As a result, there is a process that involves informational, cognitive and cultural exchanges that blend into a migratory experience that affects migrant students' ways of being, thinking, feeling and acting, allowing them to become different people. And in spite of the difficulties experienced in Brazilian lands, this experience is perceived by the research collaborators as quite positive at the end of the diploma/degree.
Keywords:
Migrations; Foreign students; Higher education; Production of difference