ERIC Number: EJ1141116
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
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Academic Mobility, Transnational Identity Capital, and Stratification under Conditions of Academic Capitalism
Kim, Terri
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, v73 n6 p981-997 Jun 2017
Academic mobility has existed since ancient times. Recently, however, academic mobility--the crossing of international borders by academics who then work "overseas"--has increased. Academics and the careers of academics have been affected by governments and institutions that have an interest in coordinating and accelerating knowledge production. This article reflects on the relations between academic mobility and knowledge and identity capital and their mutual entanglement as academics move, internationally. It argues that the contemporary movement of academics takes place within old hierarchies among nation states, but such old hierarchies intersect with new academic stratifications which will be described and analysed. These analytical themes in the article are supplemented by excerpts from interviews of mobile academics in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Korea and Hong Kong as selected examples of different locales of academic capitalism.
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Interviews, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Overseas Employment, Career Development, Knowledge Economy, Correlation, Power Structure
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong; United States; New Zealand; United Kingdom; South Korea
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