This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities’ internationalization strategies affect the three cities’ positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional and global economies. The paper conceptualizes the three cities as a triadic ensemble of gateways for transnational higher education (TNE), thereby contributing to further theorization of gateway cities. The paper shows that the three cities fulfil two crucial gateway functions. First, they connect internationalizing universities with particular student segments from their regional hinterlands seeking access to TNE. Second, they thereby amplify and disperse hegemonic regimes of the globalising knowledge-based economy in their regional hinterlands. While all three cities share similar functions and rationales, they also have distinct positionalities rooted in different strategies of the respective governments.

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跨国高等教育的门户城市？多哈、迪拜和哈伊马角成为“全球知识经济”网络中的区域放大器

本文研究了政府吸引大学离岸校园到多哈、迪拜和哈伊马角的发展雄心以及这些大学的国际化战略如何影响这三个城市的地位。它将关于全球高等教育地理分布不均的跨学科文献与关于城市在区域和全球经济中的中介作用的地理辩论联系起来。本文将这三个城市概念化为跨国高等教育（TNE）门户的三元组，从而有助于门户城市的进一步理论化。该文件表明，这三个城市履行着两项重要的门户职能。首先，他们将国际化大学与来自其地区腹地寻求进入跨国教育的特定学生群体联系起来。第二，因此，它们在其区域腹地扩大并瓦解了全球化知识经济的霸权政权。虽然这三个城市具有相似的功能和基本原理，但由于各自政府的不同战略，它们也具有不同的定位。