Table of Contents
Introduction: Narrating Migrant Academics’ Precarity and Resilience in Europe ix
1. A Journey to the ‘Self’: From Precarity as Non-Belonging to the Search for Common Ground 1
2. Unbelonging as a Post-Colonial Predicament: My Tryst With European Academia 9
(In)Visible Inclusions and Exclusion 31
4. Who Do the Dead Belong to? Considering the (In)visibility of Death as an Outsider in France 33
6. Of Academia, Status, and Knowing Your Place 51
7. A Stroll through the Darkness: The Mental Health Struggles of a Migrant Academic 61
Borders, Mobility, and Academic ‘Nomadism’ 69
8. Eighty Dates around the World: On Gender, Academic Mobility, and Reproductive Pressure 71
9. Have You Ever Heard of British Hospitality? Neither Have I 83
10. On Being a ‘Migrant Academic’: Precarious Passports and Invisible Struggles 95
The Complexities of Privilege and Precarity 103
12. Academic Mobility the ‘Other’ Way: Embodying Simultaneous Privilege and Precarity 117
13. ‘A Small Plot of New Land at All Times’: A Narrative of a Vulnerability Mortified 129
14. Conversation with
San Precario 137
Gendered Precarity and Sexualization 143
16. To the Center and Back: My Journey Through the Odds of Gendered Precarity in Academia 155
17. A Smart Hot Russian Girl From Odessa: When Gender Meets Ethnicity in Academia 163
Embodied Differences and (Non)Whiteness 181
18. Wiping the Smudge off the Window: The Darkest Time as a Student in Europe 183
19. A Letter to Future Adoptee Researchers: On Being a Researcher of Color in Belgium 191
20. Inside the Migrant Academic’s Body: Strategic Outsider within Toxic Substructures 201
21. ‘Who Deserves a Chair?’ Performative Kinships and Microaggressions in the European Academy 213