Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined.

1. Reimagining the higher education student: an introduction 2. On becoming a university student: young people and the ‘illusio’ of higher education 3. "She’s like, ‘you’re a uni student now’": the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls 4. Constructions of náksèuk-săa: tracing contested imaginings of the Thai university student 5. The shifting subjectification of the ‘widening participation’ student: the affective world of the ‘deserving’ consumer 6. Dispelling the myth of the ‘traditional’ university undergraduate student in the UK 7. Imagining the constructivist student online: actively engaged learner or vulnerable student in need? 8. Dominant higher education imaginaries: forced perspectives, ontological limits and recognising the imaginer’s frame 9. Reframing the ‘traditional learner’ into the ‘partner’ in higher education: conflicting subjectivities and behavioural expectations of the undergraduate ‘student’ in UK universities 10. Constructing the university student in British documentary television 11. Constructing students as family members: contestations in media and policy representations across Europe 12. Student millennials/Millennial students: how the lens of generation constructs understandings of the contemporary HE student 13. Exploring spaces in-between: Reimagining the Chinese student in a transnational higher education context in China 14. Between international student and immigrant: a critical perspective on Angolan and Cape Verdean students in Portugal