Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Morley, Louise; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Garaz, Stela; Monteagudo, José González; Taba, Marius

doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0224-z

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“…In the pages that follow I will discuss the cases of Nestoras and Yiannis, and my own case, in an attempt to give voice to scholars whose subjectivities are overshadowed by the dominant narrative that having international working experience is strategic and provides intercultural competencies, enhanced employability and career advancement. Meanwhile there are less romantic aspects, such as precariousness, the hidden injuries of short‐term contracts, loss of stability and visa arrangements (Morley et al ), as well as the injuries caused by political instability. In doing this my aim is also ‘to turn “private troubles” into “public issues”, make visible individual experiences of anxiety, and enable the forging of connections with other academics similarly facing the unknown’ (Loveday : np).…”

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The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

Voulvouli

2019

Soc Anthropol

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Based on ethnographic material produced during the last six years in Greece and Turkey, this paper will discuss the trajectory of three scholars who sought academic refuge in Turkey to escape the precarity that austerity policies created in their own country, Greece. They were forced out of their jobs, and consequently Turkey, when caught in the middle of the Turkish government’s authoritarian outburst following the failed coup attempt of July 2016. Drawing on approaches that construe precarity as a normality in all labour groups, including academics, and the authoritarianism inflicted on academia as an assault on civil liberties by the regime aimed at preventing academics from mounting a serious challenge to the incumbent, I will try to illustrate two things: (a) that for the cognitariat, precarity that results from austerity policies differs little from precarity that results from authoritarian policies and (b) that structural precarity has the tendency to reproduce itself through the disciplining mechanisms of these two types of governmentality.

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The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

Voulvouli

2019

Soc Anthropol

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“…A pesar de la restricción de estudios dirigidos a problematizar la internacionalización de la educación superior y a profundizar sus aspectos indeseables CONTEL, 2011, MORLEY et al, 2018, la cantidad de investigaciones disponibles con lentes teóricas más interpretativas y críticas se ha expandido. Stein (2017) y Mwangi et al (2018 discurren sobre una emergente área de estudios críticos en internacionalización, que problematiza el positivismo de los enfoques convencionales sobre el tema.…”

Section: Internacionalización De La Educación Superior Como Un Agenunclassified

Aportes para analizar la internacionalización de la educación superior desde Latinoamérica

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Oregioni

2019

Rev. Inter. Educ. Sup.

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En este ensayo, desarrollamos un análisis crítico, reflexivo y decolonial del paradigma de internacionalización que avanza en el actual contexto global de la educación superior. Nuestro argumento central es que este se integra a la estructura del capitalismo global como sistema social histórico y, en ese sentido, sigue su lógica de acumulación. En términos ontológicos y epistemológicos, se encuentra inmerso en la matriz cultural del poder colonial: bajo el fundamento de un imaginario global dominante, se sustenta en la práctica de la jerarquización, legitimando determinados países, universidades e individuos como naturalmente superiores en relación a otros y favoreciendo el conocimiento eurocéntrico en detrimento de otros saberes. Decolonizar la internacionalización de la educación superior implica contemplarla desde una perspectiva situada que es histórica y contextual; es decir, situarla en su propio tiempo y espacio y en rescatar aquello que tiene sentido a la sociedad en la que se integra, con respecto a sus raíces epistémicas y condicionalidades históricas. Los estudios post-coloniales/decoloniales y el legado del Movimiento de Córdoba – aunque limitado a su contexto histórico específico – proporcionan pistas en esa dirección hacia la educación superior latinoamericana y basan nuestro argumento.

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“…In an interconnected and globally competitive environment, cross-border movement of students and academics has become widespread. Mobility is regarded as the sine qua non of the global academy [1], as it is often linked to notions of internationalization, global connectivity, transnational academic capital, and the knowledge economy [2,3]. For a long time, the policy discourse on academic mobility has been largely framed by the emotive term "brain drain", which is defined as a one-way flow of emigration of skilled human resources from one country to another [4].…”

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Mobility, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation: An Empirical Study on Returned Chinese Academics at Two Research Universities

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the effects of academic mobility on higher education innovation through an empirical study on returned Chinese academics at two research universities in China. Based on data obtained through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 15 academic returnees, this paper aims to examine the everyday interactions between individual returnees and their environment, with a focus on exploring how different institutional contexts affect returnees’ capacity for integration and innovation. It finds that returned academics play an important role in promoting higher education innovation in China through mobilizing their transnational capital and resources. However, their capacity to innovate is largely subject to their working environment. Evidence from the study suggests that differing institutional contexts make a substantial difference to the reintegration experiences of returnees and to their contributions to institutional changes. This paper provides a window into the changing institutional environment in China and the academic lives of returnees there. It also provides important implications for talent policy decisions.

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Internationalisation and migrant academics: the hidden narratives of mobility

Cited by 141 publications

References 63 publications

The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

The vicious circle of precarity: cognitariats in the era of austerity and authoritarianism

Aportes para analizar la internacionalización de la educación superior desde Latinoamérica

Mobility, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation: An Empirical Study on Returned Chinese Academics at Two Research Universities

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