Session Information
23 SES 08 A, The Shifting Geographies of Trans-National Academic Mobility: Challenging Conventional Policy Paradigms
Symposium
Time:
2009-09-30
08:30-10:00
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Jennifer Teresa Ozga
Discussant:
Rita Foss Lindblad
Contribution
The paper will argue that what is going on is not so much "brain drain" or "brain gain" as "brain transfer and transform". Regional and national immigration policies and the strength of particular institutions (as a locus of knowledge node), combined with cultural and personal factors are making new patterns of transnational academic mobility and identity capital formation. However, some of these new emerging patterns of academic mobility are still locked up in the old rules of migration and the outmoded policy discourse in many places. The paper will illustrate and analyse the complex relations of legal framework, the institutional context of policy implementation, and the internal sociology and cultural assumptions of daily organisational practice.
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