A Journey to the ‘Self’: From Precarity as Non-belonging to the Search for Common Ground

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Abstract

In this chapter, I regard academic precarity as non-belonging and delve into personalized multi-dimensional non-belonging experiences. Reviewing my journey from home country Kazakhstan to German academia, I raise the issues of otherization and foreignness, asymmetric power relations, and an illusive diversity in Global North universities. While these issues often originate within the academic system, they are exacerbated by a perceived loss of a previous ‘self’ and difficulties in reconciling different ‘realities’ experienced by migrant scholars throughout their lives on the move.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMigrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
EditorsOlga Burlyuk, Ladan Rahbari
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Chapter1
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781800649255, 9781800649262, 9781800649279, 9781800649286, 9781800649293
ISBN (Print)9781800649231, 9781800649248
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 May 2023

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Medicine

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