‘Homes’ and being ‘at home’ in New Zealand: women’s place-making in internationalised higher education

This article endeavours to address the relative inattention to gender in international education research and the invisibility of women whose partners are international students. It draws on data from interviews with 17 women involved in a broader doctoral research project during 2005 and 2006. The article uses ‘home’ as a lens for examining women’s situated and transnational place-making and factors that promoted or precluded a sense of belonging in New Zealand.