Acolhimento e integração dos estudantes internacionais na Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira - UNILAB.

Abstract

The internationalization of higher education, consequence of the process of expansion of this level of education, is due to the increase in the processes of academic, scientific and technological exchange and bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements between different countries. Here in Brazil, these phenomena have been teasing profound changes in the area of higher education and have revealed a concern about the quality of teaching and the question of the permanence of students in the Federal Institutions of Higher Education. In this context, we find Unilab, Federal Institution of Higher Education, created at the regional and international scope, which welcomes Brazilian and international students. In this way, it is appropriate to know what IFES are doing in the scope of student assistance policies. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the perception of international students about the actions of reception and adaptation to academic life at the Unilab, the locus of the research. The research has descriptive and exploratory nature, with quantitative and qualitative approach. It will be adopted as methodological course the bibliographical and documentary analysis and the field research to better understand the topic addressed. A questionnaire will be applied to international students who entered through the Selective Process of Foreign Students from the year 2013 to the first period of 2018, as well as interviews with selected students in the selection process for PAIE tutor. The results obtained in the research revealed that the international students consider the actions of reception and integration, promoted by Unilab, important and necessary for an adequate and quiet adaptation in the university. It is concluded, therefore, that the Institution should invest in actions that contribute to the better reception and to the promotion of the physical and psychosocial well-being of the students.