exchange students

Visiting overseas learners

Exchange students are students who temporarily attend school in a foreign country, often while a student from that country attends theirs.

The arrangement immerses participants in another culture and educational system: We hosted an exchange student from Germany for a semester.

The term applies whether or not an actual swap occurs.

Opposites
residency permanence

exchange studentsimmigrants

Those settling abroad

permanent residents · settlers · expatriates · naturalized citizens · refugees

direction of movement

exchange studentshost families

Households sheltering exchange students

mobility vs. rootedness

exchange studentsprovincials

People from outlying areas

homebodies

Family

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