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1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Table of Contents
5. Introduction: Migrant Academics Narrating Their Precarity: The Exhausting, the Imperative, and the Joyful
   1. Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk
6. 1. Tango Partners: A Migrant Academic’s Fusion of Privilege and Precarity
   1. Diana Zacca Thomaz
7. 2. The Power of Small Talk: Catching up with the Academic World of International Law
   1. José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz
8. 3. Mallam’s Passport: A Poetic Reflection of an Intra-African Academic Migrant
   1. Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́
9. 4. Moving through Power
   1. Tereza Hendl
10. 5. From Denial to Shaming: Resentment and Other Stories on Being Critical, Muslim, Person of Colour in Global Academia
    1. Ahmed Abozaid
11. 6. Despotic Devices; Yet Another Form
    1. Anonymous
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12. 7. Navigating American Academia amidst Global Unrest, or Why We Should Complain More
    1. Aizada Arystanbek
13. 8. My Disappointing Life
    1. Aida A. Hozić
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14. 9. Trauma, Ancestry, and Friendship during Graduate Education and Their Aftermaths
    1. Julio César Díaz Calderón
15. 10. Four Seasons of Being a Migrant Academic
    1. Xin Pan
16. 11. Nami ni noru 波に乗る(Riding the Waves): My Journey as a Migrant Academic
    1. Nur Daut
17. 12. Lost and Found: On Being an Average Immigrant Academic
    1. Ila Nagar
18. 13. Resilience in Uncertainties: Embracing and Celebrating Black Joy
    1. Amisah Bakuri
19. 14. A Happy Migrant in Unhappy Times
    1. Reda Mahajar
20. 15. In It Differently, Together: Working through Precarity as a Migrant Supervisor and International Doctoral Student
    1. James Burford and Fatima Alhaj Hasan
21. 16. Canada: Land of Opportunities for Researchers, but Which Ones?
    1. Farinaz Basmechi
22. 17. G’day Mate! I’m Franka Vaughan, innit? A Mobile Academic’s Tales of Visa Woes and Other Misadventures
    1. Franka Vaughan
23. 18. Who Gets to Have a Child in Grad School? Financial Precarity of the Migrant Single Mother
    1. Shilpa Reddy
24. 19. One in Four. Recollections of Years of Infertility and Academic Precarity
    1. Anonyma
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25. 20. A Train to Vienna: Temporary Contracts, International Mobility and Academic Life in Austria
    1. Julia Mourão Permoser
26. 21. From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade
    1. Nadine Hassouneh
27. Afterword Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World
    1. Victoria Reyes
28. Authors’ Biographies
29. Index
30. About the Team
31. This book need not end here…
32. You may also be interested in:
33. Back cover

Headings Outline

• FROM THE MARGINS
• From the Margins
  • Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity
    • Edited by Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk
• Table of Contents
• IntroductionMigrant Academics Narrating Their Precarity: The Exhausting, the Imperative, and the Joyful
  • Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk
  • Migrant Academics and Transnational Mobility in the Margins
  • Precarity, Resilience, and Collective Resistance
  • Narratives as Liberatory: Reversing and Reclaiming the Gaze
  • The Stories in This Book and How to Read Them
  • Final Words: Migrant Lives and Hopes Matter
  • Works Cited 
• 1. Tango Partners: A Migrant Academic’s Fusion of Privilege and Precarity
  • Diana Zacca Thomaz
• 2. The Power of Small Talk: Catching up with the Academic World of International Law 
  • José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz
  • When You Feel Your Network Imploding 
  • That Need to ‘Catch Up’ 
  • But You Don’t Look Ecuadorian   
  • Non preoccuparti, tu sei straniero 
  • On Academic Conferences and Peacock Capital    
  • Global Academic Villages and Intellectual Density 
  • Trips to Ukraine 
  • The Power of Small Talk  
  • PhD Defence in Spring 
• 3. Mallam’s Passport: A Poetic Reflection of an Intra-African Academic Migrant
  • Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́
  • Works Cited
• 4. Moving through Power
  • Tereza Hendl
  • Works Cited
• 5. From Denial to Shaming: Resentment and Other Stories on Being Critical, Muslim, Person of Colour in Global Academia
  • Ahmed Abozaid
  • Borderlands of Deniability: From the Personal to the Epistemic, and the Other Way Around 
  • On Resentment and Other Shit 
    •  Beirut/Southampton: May–November 2023 
    • Southampton: February–March 2024 
  • Works Cited
• 6. Despotic Devices; Yet Another Form
  • Anonymous
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  • Works Cited
• 7. Navigating American Academia amidst Global Unrest, or Why We Should Complain More 
  • Aizada Arystanbek
  • American Dream in Academia 
  • Transitioning to American Academia: Challenges and Expectations 
  • Professional Opportunity vs Communal Grievances 
  • Intersections of Trauma and Academic Fetishization 
  • Conclusion 
  • Works Cited 
• 8. My Disappointing Life
  • Aida A. Hozić
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• 9. Trauma, Ancestry, and Friendship during Graduate Education and Their Aftermaths
  • Julio César Díaz Calderón
  • Doing Poetry Together
    • Gainesville, Florida, USA, 8 March 2021
  • From Trauma Bonding to Honouring our Ancestral Bodies, Lands, and Food
    • Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, 8 March, 2025
  • Works Cited
• 10. Four Seasons of Being a Migrant Academic 
  • Xin Pan
  • Autumn 
  • Summer  
  • Winter  
  • Spring  
  • Work Cited  
• 11. Nami ni noru 波に乗る(Riding the Waves): My Journey as a Migrant Academic
  • Nur Daut
  • Malaysia: Home but Not Home 
  • Türkiye: Oh, What an Adventure! 
  • Japan: New Beginning and Spreading Roots 
  • Precarity, Lifestyle, and Well-being 
  • The Quest for a Research Grant or kakenhi in Japan 
  • Japan at Its Best 
  • Works Cited 
• 12. Lost and Found: On Being an Average Immigrant Academic
  • Ila Nagar
  • A Little History
  • Getting Lost
  • Getting Found
• 13. Resilience in Uncertainties: Embracing and Celebrating Black Joy
  • Amisah Bakuri 
• 14. A Happy Migrant in Unhappy Times 
  • Reda Mahajar
  • From Lahore to Damascus: My Family’s Journey Across Borders 
  • Finding my Educational Path 
  • Escalation 
  • Gaining ‘the Status’
  • Afterword 
• 15. In It Differently, Together: Working through Precarity as a Migrant Supervisor and International Doctoral Student  
  • James Burford and Fatima Alhaj Hasan
  • Jamie 
  • Fatima 
  • Fatima and Jamie  
  • Works Cited  
• 16. Canada: Land of Opportunities for Researchers, but Which Ones?
  • Farinaz Basmechi
  • Prologue
  • Episode One: First Stop, USA
  • Episode Two: Second Stop, Canada
  • Episode Three: Wait, What? Just Status?
  • Episode Four: Access to Resources and Politics of Connection
  • Epilogue: Living in Constant Survival Mode and Feminist Solidarity
• 17. G’day Mate! I’m Franka Vaughan, innit? A Mobile Academic’s Tales of Visa Woes and Other Misadventures  
  • Franka Vaughan
  • Worthy Be Thy Passport!  
  • What’s in a Name? Becoming Franka Vaughan! 
  • Fear and Institutional Indifference: Navigating Pregnancy as a First-Year International PhD Student at Melbourne University 
  • Works Cited
• 18. Who Gets to Have a Child in Grad School? Financial Precarity of the Migrant Single Mother
  • Shilpa Reddy
• 19. One in Four. Recollections of Years of Infertility and Academic Precarity
  • Anonyma
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• 20. A Train to Vienna: Temporary Contracts, International Mobility and Academic Life in Austria 
  • Julia Mourão Permoser
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• 21. From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade
  • Nadine Hassouneh
  • Project Belgium (2010-2015) 
  • Project UK (2020-2022) 
  • Works Cited
• Afterword Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World
  • Victoria Reyes
  • ‘How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?’
  • Fractal Whiteness
  • Epistemology
  • Embodiment and Affect of Migrant Academics
  • Silence
  • Abolition as Disrupting Translation
  • Works Cited
• Authors’ Biographies
• Index
• About the Team
• This book need not end here…
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