This autoethnographic talk - or rather an invitation for a discussion - will focus on various dimensions of transnational academic mobility. It will touch upon the hybrid identity of an early career researcher in Western academia dealing with internationalization as a dominant policy discourse in the sector of higher education and with mobility as one of the key mechanisms through which internationalization takes place.
Questioning the ways in which one’s gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and institutional affiliation intersect, the presenter invites you to reflect on how identities are constructed and maintained and how uneven distribution of opportunity structures for mobility among geopolitical spaces and social groups impacts one’s self-identity and life chances.