Of Academia, Status, and Knowing Your Place

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2023
Host editors
  • O. Burlyuk
  • L. Rahbari
Book title Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
ISBN
  • 9781800649231
  • 9781800649248
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781800649255
  • 9781800649262
  • 9781800649279
  • 9781800649286
  • 9781800649293
Chapter 6
Pages (from-to) 51-60
Publisher OpenBook Publishers
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Academic jobs in the Netherlands are seen as high-status jobs. Through recollection of a few social interactions I have had outside, and within the academy, I discuss how my positionality at the intersections of, among others, migration background, gender, and class, is perceived as incongruent with the status associated with being an academic in the Global North. I touch upon matters such as the right to knowledge (re)production and the ascribed and prescribed equivalence of one’s country of origin and the type of work they are expected to do.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.06
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