Internationalization of higher education has become a significant feature of the Canadian
educational landscape. Considered to be a product of and response to globalization,
internationalization is being critiqued for having an economic orientation. This paper will begin
with a brief overview of internationalization research in Canada, and the main focus is a
conceptual discussion prompted by the relationship between internationalization and
globalization. Informed by sociological and cultural studies’ accounts of the multiple dimensions
of globalization, I argue that an uncritical pursuit of internationalization can result in a
reproduction of the economic dimensions of globalization, and yet resistance to commodification
can be found in other dimensions of globalization that offer useful theoretical bases for both
research and practice in Canadian internationalization.