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International Academic Mobility: Directions for a Fairer Knowledge Production Landscape

Tugay Durak — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:30:18 +0000

International academic mobility has become integral to contemporary academia and is widely promoted in policy discourses as a driver of mutual understanding, excellence, innovation, knowledge production, and research partnerships. Yet injustices, inequalities, and colonial legacies still shape who can move, under what conditions, and whose knowledge is recognized and valued.

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Virtual Mobility: A Complementary Pathway to Equitable Internationalization in Swiss Higher Education

Pinar Eldemir — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:35:12 +0000

The evolving landscape of higher education, driven by the need for sustainability and broader access, calls for models of internationalization that are more adaptable, inclusive, equal, and sustainable. Research on Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted attention from purely physical mobility toward ensuring

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“A Step in the Right Direction”: Perspectives on Prioritizing Scholars from the Global South

Tugay Durak — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:49:37 +0000

Since 2014, the nccr – on the move has supported researchers on the move by funding short-term visiting fellowships, fostering international collaborations, and helping early-career scholars join its annual Neuchâtel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (NGC). Over time, the center began prioritizing applicants from the “Global South” to

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When Mobility Barriers Shape Who Gets Heard in Global Research

Julia Wiethüchter — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:26:39 +0000

Science is increasingly global, and collaboration across national borders between researchers has become one of its driving forces. Mobility is central to this process; it makes collaboration possible and, in turn, is influenced by it. Yet, when considering research collaboration between researchers in the so-called Global North and Global South,

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From Precarity to Possibility: Toward a Fairer Academic Mobility Regime for Temporary Migrants

Şahizer Samuk Carignani — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:30:56 +0000

Academic mobility, whether short-term or long-term, has long been hailed as a vital driver of knowledge creation and cross-border intellectual exchange. Historically, the movement of scholars fueled innovation and collaboration across nations. Beneath this idealized narrative lies a more complex reality: temporary contracts, job instability, and structural inequalities. These challenges

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Inverting the Decolonization Agenda for Research Partnerships

Medinat Malefakis — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:40:34 +0000

Despite decades of talk, why does “decolonizing” research partnerships still feel like a colonial project? The uncomfortable truth is that the reform is still being led by the very powers it seeks to dismantle. Even with decades of critique and countless well-meaning declarations, the architecture of global research collaborations continues

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Challenging Old Power Dynamics: How Regional Collaboration Strengthens the Global South

Yusuf Oldac — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:25:55 +0000

Academic mobility carries varied meanings across different contexts. For Global North academics, it is often about getting closer to the research context and broadening empirical scope. Conversely, for researchers in the Global South, mobility is frequently understood as access to opportunities—such as postdoctoral appointments, fellowships, or short-term visits to Global

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Grande Sertão: Veredas – Wandering Through Loneliness and Rewarding Academic Encounters

Thais França — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:15:50 +0000

In “Grande Sertão: Veredas,” the “sertão” is a dry, harsh land crossed by vital streams called “veredas.” My path through European academia as a Brazilian scholar has followed a pattern of marginalization, where my knowledge, language, and presence were constantly contested, interrupted by rare, nourishing collaborations. To change academia built

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How Student Mobility is Changing in a Multipolar World

Hicham Jamid — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:30:41 +0000

Every year, millions of students leave their homes to study abroad, but where they go is changing. While most still head to well-known higher education destinations such as North America, Europe, or Australia, over the past two decades, new academic centers have emerged in places like China, Malaysia or South

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Post-Pandemic Migration Dynamics: Impact on Africa’s Early Career Scholars in Border and Migration Studies

Samuel Okunade — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:51:43 +0000

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, migration has increasingly become a focal point in the populist rhetoric dominating political discourse in many Western countries. This shift is characterized by heightened securitization of borders, restrictive visa regimes, and an overt discouragement of migration from the Global South, particularly Africa. These developments hinder human

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