Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Łuczaj, Kamil

doi:10.31577/sociologia.2019.51.3.12

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“…Interestingly, this differentiation in our sample is not a coincidence but mirrors a wider development in HES. A similar distinction between a ‘settler’ and a ‘mover’ place was found in a previous comparative study addressing Australia and Italy (Kirpitchenko, 2014), and more recent studies showed this pattern in countries like Poland (Mucha & Łuczaj, 2017) and Slovakia (Łuczaj, 2019).…”

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Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective

Schäfer,

Schittenhelm,

El Dali

2023

Population Space and Place

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Intra‐EU doctoral migrants are doubly privileged: as EU citizens they enjoy free movement rights and as academics their intra‐EU mobility is promoted by the EU's measures to establish a European Research Area. This paper takes a closer look at these favourable conditions by examining intra‐EU mobile doctoral academics in different places. To understand the experiences of migrating into academic spheres abroad and being on the threshold of entering the academic workforce, our theoretical approach brings together theories of distinctive practices resulting in exclusion and theories of belonging. We consider the knowledge resources, including language abilities, that are required for the doctoral migrants' inclusion in the academic workforce abroad by using a comparative view on places. Our empirical analysis focuses on graduates in the social sciences and humanities who moved from Germany to France or the Netherlands during their educational trajectories. Suggesting a place‐based comparative approach, we contribute to the debates about barriers to intra‐EU academic migration. We explain (i) place‐specific obstacles due to differing understandings of ‘appropriate’ knowledge and language abilities in higher education that affect social and academic life and (ii) how these barriers result in the doctoral migrants being in‐ and excluded in academic environments abroad.

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Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective

Schäfer,

Schittenhelm,

El Dali

2023

Population Space and Place

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“…Push factors included family issues, the differences in the labour market and boredom with a previous job. Luczaj (2019) related his research to push-pull dyadic factors, basing his study on foreign-born academics who decided to come to a peripheral country, with the push motives being: a bad economy, corruption and a poor political situation, insufficient salary and a lack of jobs in the home country. The pull factors included: genuine interests in politics and cultural heritage of the host country, a previous relationship with citizens and a scholarship scheme.…”

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“…For this reason, the studies of Luczaj (2022a, 2022b) conducted on foreign-born academics working in post-communist Eastern European countries, bring in a new perspective. According to the author, in some countries with “peripheral academic systems”, only highly motivated academics decide to migrate for personal reasons (for example, a spouse), background (for example, interest in post-communist politics), or a lack of other options (Luczaj, 2019, 2022b). These reasons constitute “push factors” or “critical motives” (Kurek-Ochmańska and Luczaj, 2021), but pull factors include: stability, a less-competitive environment and cultural proximity (Luczaj, 2020).…”

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Expatriate academics: what have we known for four decades? A systematic literature review

Przytuła¹

2023

JGM

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PurposeThe main objective of this paper is twofold: to analyse the progress of a research stream concerning expatriate academics in the last four decades and to make recommendations for further studies in this field.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the systematic literature review (SLR) concerning expatriate academics was applied. The search embraced the period from 1980–2022. The review was performed in two interdisciplinary electronic databases: Web of Science and Scopus. The selection process of papers was conducted in steps, as recommended by the PRISMA protocol. The total pool of articles received after the exclusion criteria was 110. The content of each paper was thus extracted and categorised in Excel file: author, year of publication, tittle of article, journal, theory applied, research method, sample size, country/field of investigation.FindingsFor almost three decades this topic was almost absent in the literature of the subject. The most active publication period started from 2009 and since then there have been two “waves” of published articles devoted to expatriate academics: 2009–2014 and 2017–2021. The significant number of studies appeared in Journal of Global Mobility followed by Personnel Review, IJHRM, Higher Education. The thematic analysis revealed six themes which have been already researched on expatriates academics: (1) motives, (2) adjustment, (3) job factors and work outcomes, (4) academic missions, (5) academic career, (6) women and men in academia.Practical implicationsPractitioners and university management might find this article useful as the article allows to manage this pool of international academics more efficiently with mutual benefits for expatriates and organisations. This study may assist the university authorities to develop systemic approach to attract foreign academics; adjust the same in work and culture domain through effective training; support in organisational, financial and career field; create the performance criteria of expatriate work related to three missions: research, teaching and service; introduce metrics and indicators to evaluate the contribution and work outcomes of foreign scientists into the host university.Originality/valueThis review shows that there are many new perspectives and models through which the academic expatriation can be analysed. This paper gives an insight into the academic literature on academics expatriates. The paper is innovative and has contributed to research by doing an SLR in a new area (academic expats) and tackling all the areas that has been covered by academic research so far. New research directions have been recommended for future research, to open the field further.

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“…This typology resembles a typology created based on similar research in another Central European, post-communist country: Slovakia (Luczaj, 2019).…”

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Academic Migration to Poland: Policies and Paradoxes

Łuczaj

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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The skill-attracting policies encouraging the internationalisation of higher education are compatible with a modernisation discourse, at the heart of which lies a belief that international researchers are highly embedded super-achievers allured by targeted policies. By focusing on the life stories of foreign-born scholars working in Poland (100 in-depth interviews), and Polish department heads (20 interviews) this article revealed three paradoxes that should never have come to be according to the Western modernisation paradigm. The first paradox is related to the expectation that policies targeted at incoming scholars should be the first and foremost enticement for international scholars. The second paradox stems from the fact that some internationally mobile academics representing the humanities and social sciences—in their biographical narratives—highly criticise current academic policies focused on internationalisation. The third paradox is related to the fact that, counterintuitively, less embedded academic migrants perform better. This is an outcome of the life strategy of top-performing scholars, who decide to work in Poland only upon receiving a prestigious and temporary, often EU-funded, scholarship (e.g., Marie Curie). Building on the empirical material from Poland, this article introduces a new notion—the ‘internationalisation against the grain’ to embrace the paradoxes of internationalisation from many peripheral countries.

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Analyzing Biographies of Foreign-born Academics in Slovakia: Why Highly Skilled Employees Decide to Choose a Peripheral Country

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective

Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective

Expatriate academics: what have we known for four decades? A systematic literature review

Academic Migration to Poland: Policies and Paradoxes

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