From the Margins : Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahbari, Ladan.

Contributor:

Burlyuk, Olga.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teacher mobility.

Precarious employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2026.

Summary:

This edited volume explores the precarious experiences of migrant academics through personal narratives and reflections. Contributors from diverse backgrounds share stories of academic mobility, resilience, and the challenges of navigating systemic inequities, xenophobia, and institutional barriers. The book examines themes such as financial instability, visa struggles, political persecution, and the emotional toll of displacement. It also highlights the importance of solidarity, friendship, and resistance among migrant scholars in overcoming adversity and fostering academic and personal growth. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction: Migrant Academics Narrating Their Precarity: The Exhausting, the Imperative, and the Joyful

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk

1. Tango Partners: A Migrant Academic's Fusion of Privilege and Precarity

Diana Zacca Thomaz

2. The Power of Small Talk: Catching up with the Academic World of International Law

José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz

3. Mallam's Passport: A Poetic Reflection of an Intra-African Academic Migrant

Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́

4. Moving through Power

Tereza Hendl

5. From Denial to Shaming: Resentment and Other Stories on Being Critical, Muslim, Person of Colour in Global Academia

Ahmed Abozaid

6. Despotic Devices

Yet Another Form

Anonymous

7. Navigating American Academia amidst Global Unrest, or Why We Should Complain More

Aizada Arystanbek

8. My Disappointing Life

Aida A. Hozić

9. Trauma, Ancestry, and Friendship during Graduate Education and Their Aftermaths

Julio César Díaz Calderón

10. Four Seasons of Being a Migrant Academic

Xin Pan

11. Nami ni noru 波に乗る (Riding the Waves): My Journey as a Migrant Academic

Nur Daut

12. Lost and Found: On Being an Average Immigrant Academic

Ila Nagar

13. Resilience in Uncertainties: Embracing and Celebrating Black Joy

Amisah Bakuri

14. A Happy Migrant in Unhappy Times

Reda Mahajar

15. In It Differently, Together: Working through Precarity as a Migrant Supervisor and International Doctoral Student

James Burford and Fatima Alhaj Hasan

16. Canada: Land of Opportunities for Researchers, but Which Ones?

Farinaz Basmechi

17. G'day Mate! I'm Franka Vaughan, innit? A Mobile Academic's Tales of Visa Woes and Other Misadventures

Franka Vaughan

18. Who Gets to Have a Child in Grad School? Financial Precarity of the Migrant Single Mother

Shilpa Reddy.

19. One in Four. Recollections of Years of Infertility and Academic Precarity

Anonyma

20. A Train to Vienna: Temporary Contracts, International Mobility and Academic Life in Austria

Julia Mourão Permoser

21. From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade

Nadine Hassouneh

Afterword: Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World

Victoria Reyes

Authors' Biographies

Index.

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ISBN:

1-80511-787-4

1-80511-788-2

OCLC:

1602059837