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The research question explores how international students at a Dutch university socialize and identify with students from their host country, home country, and other international students. It examines factors that influence this process like experiences studying or living abroad previously, reasons for choosing to study abroad and at this university specifically, and plans after finishing their degree. The sub-questions cover topics like who international students interact with most on and off campus; how they are adapting to the local culture and interacting with local and other international students; how their identity and perspectives may have changed from living abroad; and what they have learned from this experience.

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The research question explores how international students at a Dutch university socialize and identify with students from their host country, home country, and other international students. It examines factors that influence this process like experiences studying or living abroad previously, reasons for choosing to study abroad and at this university specifically, and plans after finishing their degree. The sub-questions cover topics like who international students interact with most on and off campus; how they are adapting to the local culture and interacting with local and other international students; how their identity and perspectives may have changed from living abroad; and what they have learned from this experience.

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Research Question: How do international Students on campus at a Dutch

University (Tilburg) socialise and how do they identify with students from the host
country, home country and other international students, and which factors influence
this process?

Sub-questions
Studying abroad
- Dot hey have any experience of studying abroad before this? Or living abroad?
- How long and what did they study in their home country? Did they finish or start
University studies there?
- Why did they choose to study abroad? Why choose Tilburg specifically?
- How do they perceive studying in Tilburg to be different from studying in their
home country?
- What are their plans afterwards? Return / stay?

Socialisation
- Whom do international students interact with the most on campus? And off
campus?
- Why? Is it preference or coincidence?
- How do they interact with other students?
- How, if at all, are they adapting to the local culture? Did they learn Dutch? Are
they participating in any local cultural events? Have they tried anything “typically
Dutch”?
- What is their relationship with local students?
- What is their relationship with other international students?
- Are there any other students from their home country? What is their relationship
with them?
- Does the University context change how they interact with others? Is it different
from how they did back home?

Identity Construction
- Having travelled abroad, do they have a new perspective on their home country?
Has it changed from before?
- Do they have a sense of community with other students? Local or international?
- Is there a set of norms and values shared among international students? Or
students at this University? If so, what has influenced this?
- What have they learned from the experience of studying abroad? What has
changed?
1. Biographical information. Could you tell me more about yourself? Where were you born and
where did you grow up? Where (and what?) did you study before Tilburg?

2. Why did you choose to study abroad? And why specifically Tilburg?

3. Is studying in Tilburg different from where you studied before? If so, how?

4. What are your plans after you finish studying here? Do you want to stay here or go back? Move
somewhere else? Will you continue studying or move on to something else?

5. Who do you spend most of your time with on campus? And off campus? Is it by choice or
coincidence?

6. When not studying, do you spend most of your time with other students or others? Why? And
what do you do when not studying?

7. How are you adapting to the local culture? Is living in Tilburg easy, difficult? What are some
differences from your home country? How have you adapted to those differences?

8. Have you done anything “local”? Participated in cultural events or tried something typically
Dutch? Maybe the food?

9. What is your relationship with the local students? Do you interact with the Dutch students at all?
How would you describe your interactions with them?

10. What about international students? How is your relationship with them?

11. Do you interact with any students from the home country? How would you describe your
relationship with them? Do you ever try to organise any social events to remind you of “home”?
Have you tried sharing something of your culture or something typically “of home” with the locals or
other international students?

12. How has the University context influenced how you interact with other students? Do you think it
is different from socialising outside the University?

13. Having now lived abroad, has your perspective on your home country changed? If so, how is it
different from before?

14. Do you have a sense of community with other students, local or international? Based on shared
experiences, shared situation?

15. Is there a set of norms and values shared among international students? Or students at this
University? If so, what has influenced this?

16. What have they learned from the experience of studying abroad? What has changed, if
anything? Do you think there will be any lasting changes from this experience?

17. Do you have any questions?

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