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Despite growing numbers of international students at Canada’s community colleges, this group has historically been underrepresented. The intersectionality of their minority-status characteristics makes their experience complex. This qualitative study of 35 international students and graduates from 15 countries uses critical theory to explore their experiences through the lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Despite a high degree of cultural diversity, some of them experienced stereotyping. Moreover, they tended to engage less in classroom discussions, and many of them were unaware of college resources and services. Consequently, they had difficulty adjusting to life at college and life in Canada.  \nKeywords: equity, diversity, inclusion, community colleges, international students, underrepresented groups  \nRésumé  \nEn raison de l’évolution démographique, les établissements d’enseignement supérieur canadiens subissent des pressions pour relever les défis liés à la diversité des étudiants, des professeurs et du personnel. Malgré le nombre croissant d’étudiants étrangers dans les collèges communautaires du Canada, ce groupe a toujours été sous-représenté . L’intersectionnalité des caractéristiques de leur statut minoritaire rend leur expérience complexe. Cette étude qualitative menée auprès de 35 étudiants et diplômés internationaux de 15 pays utilise la théorie critique pour explorer leurs expériences sous l’angle de l’équité, de la diversité et de l’inclusion. Malgré une grande diversité culturelle, certains d’entre eux étaient victimes des stéréotypes. D’ailleurs, ils avaient tendance à moins participer aux discussions en classe, et bon nombre ne connaissaient pas les ressources et les services fournis par leur collège. Ils avaient donc dela difficulté à s’adapter à la vie au collège et au Canada.  \nMots-clés: équité, diversité et inclusion; collèges communautaires; étudiants internationaux; groupes sous-représentés  \nIntroduction  \nInternational College Students asan Underrepresented Group  \nInitially the role of Canada’s provincially funded community colleges was to train skilled workers and tradespeople for local economies. Over the years, however, some colleges evolved into complex institutions with multiple functions that include educating and training international students  \nCanadian Journal of Higher Education | Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur 52:4 (2023)   \n(Legusov, 2017) . Even though the number of international community college students is growing rapidly in Canada, the phenomenon is relatively recent.  \nWith the 2008 amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2008), it became easier for international college graduates to obtain permanent residency in Canada, and their numbers began to increase rapidly. From 2007–8 to 2017–18, the number of such students grew from 30,477 to 99,909 (Statistics Canada, 2020) . Even so, according to Statistics Canada, this impressive growth was highly uneven, with 68,037, or 68 .1%, of international college students in Canada attending Ontario’s 24 colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs) . Moreover, of all the international students at Ontario CAATs, more than 50.0% attended the five large Greater Toronto Area (GTA) colleges (Ontario Government, 2019) . This distribution makes international students an underrepresented minority at most Canadian community colleges. For example, in 2017–18, there were only 180 international college students in Prince Edward Island, 60 in Newfoundland and Labrador,","cbCaiexUuKz3tWT0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiexUuKz3tWT0","pdf",181245,14,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## International college students as an underrepresented group\n## Institutional context and policy changes\n## Geographic distribution and country of origin","[{\"question\":\"Why does the study focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion for international community college students?\",\"answer\":\"Canadian institutions face demographic-driven diversity challenges, yet international students in community colleges remain underrepresented. 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