CGHE publishes new open access book on global academic mobilities

A new CGHE-edited volume exploring the changing dynamics of international academic mobility has been released Open Access by Bloomsbury Academic.

The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency, edited by Aline Courtois, Simon Marginson, Catherine Montgomery and Ravinder Sidhu, is now freely available, with each chapter downloadable as a PDF.

The collection examines how global inequalities, shifting geopolitics and institutional practices shape who moves, who cannot, and how knowledge circulates across borders.

Many of the chapters are extended versions of papers first presented in CGHE’s webinar series, reflecting ongoing debates within the research community.

Emeritus Professor Simon Marginson said: “Cross-border mobility in higher education is not as well supported as before. There’s disturbing anti-migrant rhetoric in parts of the West, greater obstacles face international students moving into the Anglophone countries, and research cooperation is disrupted by national security regulation. But the world remains intensively connected on a global basis (which is why the geopolitics are also intense), cross-border curiosity and the new possibilities created by physical and virtual mobility continue to drive human behaviour, and appetites for collaboration and learning from each other are shaping of much activity in higher education.

“At the same time, the world is divided between those for whom mobility is a choice and those whose immobility is fixed and whose perspective and language are marginalised. With nations putting themselves first, the colonial overhang still structuring the higher education world, and money driving the flows of people and knowledge, educationists struggle to find policy pathways to democratising mobility. That crucial problem animates the chapters of this book.”

The full book can be accessed here.