The Future of Cross-border Academic (Im)mobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency

This open access edited collection brings together reflections on the fast-changing and crisis-ridden global context and develops new ways of conceptualising academic mobilities, and immobilities, against a backdrop of a conflicted and precarious future for global higher education. The result is a set of vivid cutting-edge contributions, some of which take a global view and others which explore a country perspective, including China, France, Malaysia, Philippines, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and more. The book foregrounds critical approaches to academic mobility, with topics covered including blockages to mobility in the context of geopolitical tensions and the upsurge of national particularism and nativism, the intersection of academic (im)mobilities and power, political subjectivities and race, class and gender. Traditional understandings of academic mobility as physical mobility from global South to North are questioned as exclusionary and alternative models of mobility are offered. These include those appropriate to post-colonial national and regional contexts, those responsive to the changing needs of students, academics and their communities, those using online modes as well as those involving physical transfers of persons, and those about the mobility of knowledge as well as people and learning. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

Aline Courtois is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. From 2016 to 2018, Aline Courtois was Research Associate at the Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL IOE. She is interested in the intersection of privilege, precarity and international mobility/migration especially in relation to higher education and has published widely on elite schools, international student mobility, Brexit and higher education, and academic precarity.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford, UK, and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. He was Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education from 2015 to 2024.

Catherine Montgomery is Professor of Education and Deputy Executive Dean Global at Durham University, UK. Catherine is Editor for Compare: Journal of International and Comparative Education. She is affiliated Faculty at Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, and affiliated International Expert for Monash University's (Melbourne) China Research Network. Works on transnational and transcultural aspects of education and knowledge.

Ravinder Sidhu is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. Ravinder Sidhu works on globalisation and international education, educational mobility and education and forced migration.