International student mobility (ISM) is largely interpreted as a global middle-class capital accumulation strategy. Cosmopolitanism, which is the named outcome and effect of these mobile forms of social and cultural capital, is therefore disproportionately available to already privileged students. This study moves beyond this prevailing interpretation by examining how students from working- or lower-middle-class families with limited resources in Global South countries combine bottom-up cosmopolitanism with educational mobility to get selected into highly competitive spaces, such as the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, the most prestigious educational and cultural program in the United States. Based on 20 in-depth interviews with successful Fulbright applicants and participant observation, my findings suggest that working- and lower-middle-class applicants are largely successful because of their cosmopolitan dispositions which they cultivate in creative and agentive ways. This article adds texture and complexity to existing discussions on middle-class hegemony in ISM and cosmopolitan subject-making.

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来自南半球的国际化道路：非中产阶级学生如何成为理想的富布赖特申请者

国际学生流动（ISM）在很大程度上被解释为全球中产阶级资本积累策略。因此，世界主义，即这些流动形式的社会和文化资本的结果和影响，对于已经享有特权的学生来说是不成比例的。这项研究超越了这种流行的解释，研究了来自南半球国家资源有限的工薪阶层或中下阶层家庭的学生如何将自下而上的世界主义与教育流动性结合起来，以进入竞争激烈的领域，例如富布赖特外国学生计划，美国最负盛名的教育和文化计划。基于对成功的富布赖特申请者的 20 次深度访谈和参与观察，我的研究结果表明，工薪阶层和中下阶层的申请者之所以成功，很大程度上是因为他们以创造性和主动性的方式培养了他们的国际化性格。本文为现有关于 ISM 中的中产阶级霸权和世界主义主题制定的讨论增添了质感和复杂性。