Women as Academic Migrants: Power, Subjectivity, and Agency
Description: In this new book project, I shed light upon the ways in which “academic mobility” of women who leave their countries of origin to pursue their academic careers in the United States, is not so much a free choice but the result of power structures that did not allow these women to enter or succeed in the sciences and academia in their countries of origin. As academic migrants their struggles continue as female international scholars in the United States. This project also explains the moment of the limit in power when these women retained the capacity of agency on both continents. It is based on feminist theories of power and an analysis of interviews with female academic migrants, who currently work in the United States across academic disciplines.
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