Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students

Abstract

This chapter offers a queer feminist analysis of the NeXXt Scholars partnership, a collaborative effort between the State Department and US colleges and universities to provide support for female-identified international students who want to travel to US universities and colleges from predominantly Muslim countries to study science and technology. Boggs argues that in grappling with these movements and their motivations it is necessary to consider how programs such as NeXXt render visible the desires of institutions and nation-states for the limited incorporation of specific others. In the process, she suggests that thinking about the movement of international students and the possibility of mobility justice in a transnational frame is an important direction for future work at the intersection of mobility studies and emerging critical analyses of US universities and colleges.