The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency

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Aline Courtois (University of Bath, UK) Professor Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK)

The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities

Power, Knowledge and Agency

Aline Courtois (University of Bath, UK), Professor Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK), Catherine Montgomery (Durham University, UK) , Ravinder Sidhu (University of Queensland, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 December 2025

Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research

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.

Edited by: Aline Courtois (University of Bath UK), Professor Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK), Catherine Montgomery (Durham University, UK), Ravinder Sidhu (University of Queensland, Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350502406
ISBN 10: 1350502405
Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Editor's Foreword Introduction and Overview of the Book, Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK), Catherine Montgomery (Durham University, UK), Aline Courtois (University of Bath, UK) and Ravinder Sidhu (University of Queensland, Australia) 1. Trends in International(Ization Of) Higher Education in a Time of Geopolitical Turmoil, Philip G. Altbach (Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA) and Hans de Wit (Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, USA) 2. International Doctoral Knowledge and the Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobility: Perspectives from Digital Scholarship, Catherine Montgomery (Durham University, UK) 3. The (Im)Mobilities of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Global Science Regimes, Ravinder Sidhu (University of Queensland, Australia) 4. Mobility or Precarity? Constructions and Uses of International Mobility Among Long-Term Precarious Academics in Ireland, Aline Courtois (University of Bath, UK) 6. International Student Engagement and Support, Ly Tran (Deakin University, Australia) and Diep Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia) 7. Graduate Employability in ASEAN: the Contribution of Student Mobility, Miguel Antonio Lim (University of Manchester, UK), Icy Fresno Anabo (University of Deusto, Spain), Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Drew Elepaño (Coventry University, UK) and Gunjana Kuntamarat (University of Deusto, Spain) 8. Internationalising the ‘Plural Society’: Alternative Transnational Higher Education in Malaysia, Mayumi Ishikawa (Osaka University, Japan) 9. Pull Factors in Choosing a Higher Education Study Abroad Destination After the Massive Global Immobility: a Re-Examination From Chinese Perspectives, Ka Ho Mok (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR) and Yu Baohua (Lucy) (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR) 10. Being and Becoming Academics: Cases of Overseas Returnees’ Career Pathways in China, Mei LI (East China Normal University, China) and Wen Xu (East China Normal University, China) 11. What Changes Occurred in Transnational Degree Programs in Chinese Universities From 2003 To 2023?, Futao Huang (Hiroshima University, Japan) 12. The Contributions of Study Abroad To Home Countries: An Agential Perspective, Yusuf Oldac (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR) 13. Problems of the Definition of ‘Internationalisation of Higher Education’, Simon Marginson (University of Oxford, UK) Index

Aline Courtois is Reader in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK, and co-editor of the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education. She holds a PhD in Sociology from University College Dublin and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the author of Elite schooling and social inequality: privilege and power in Ireland's top private schools (2018). Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford (emeritus) and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Bristol, UK. He is also joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. He is an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in China, a Professorial Associate of the University of Melbourne, Australia, a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academies of Social Sciences in the UK and Australia, and a Member of Academia Europaea. 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 in the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, and Affiliated International Expert for the China Research Network at Monash University, Australia. Ravinder Sidhu is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests are in higher education, critical studies of internationalisation and postcolonial studies.

Reviews for The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency

This book takes an unflinching look at global student mobility, where some enjoy privilege and opportunity while others are forced to move or struggle simply to survive. It confronts hard truths about power, access, and higher education today. * Jenny Lee, Ph.D. Vice President for Arizona International and Dean of International Education Professor of Higher Education Arizona International THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA *