This article aims to analyze the treatment that Brazilian researchers have given to the theme: internationalization of higher education. The research used articles available on the Portal de Periódicos of the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). The study sought to link the analysis of the context of the planetary era to the inequalities between Western Europe and underdeveloped countries. The research undertaken here showed, among other things, that the internationalization between non-hegemonic countries and developed countries has been seen as a unilateral transference, rather than as solidary cooperation, and it points to the need for an international curricular project and critical and dialogic propositions, within a context in which diversity is delineated as a universal project.