Special Issue: ‘Outsiders within’ Minoritized and migrant academics in HE
To be published by the Journal of Educational Review in 2025
Guest Editors: Dr Saba Hussain (Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Social Justice, University of Birmingham), Dr. Nazia Hussein (Senior Lecturer in Race, SPAIS, University of Bristol), Prof Maria Tsouroufli (Professor of Education, 明星八卦)
This special issue (SI) will present a collection (12 papers) of research on migrant and minoritized academics using themes that explore their ‘lived’ experiences and the navigations and negotiations undertaken by them. Ultimately, the SI will offer a situated critique of HE diversity policy with a view to challenge the race-gender status quo of HE. As this SI brings together literature from range of disciplines including education, sociology and migration studies to consider the nature of emotions and emotional work undertaken by transnational academics, it will have an interdisciplinary readership.
Our special issue aims to open up a space for critical dialogue and inquiry of the difference and diversity discourses in higher educational institutions in the UK and other Western countries. Our focus on complex processes of racialization and minorization experiences of academics falls within the scope of the journal and its commitment to enhancing debates on a strong social agenda. The high-quality, original articles that will feature in the special issue include influential voices in this field like Professor Kalwant Bhopal, Professor Vini Lander and Professor Uvanney Maylor. The papers offer a nuanced understanding of highly skilled migration, transnationality, and exclusion from an intersectional approach to inequality in academic contexts. They will advance the scholarship of Educational Review, which has, up to date, engaged successfully with issues of equity and internationalization and the experiences mainly of international and refugee students. The authors’ concern with the affective and the emergence of complex racialisations, enhance innovative theoretical and methodological study of marginalization of various groups of academics and the perpetuation of white supremacy in higher education. The special issue will be of interest to the wide readership of Educational Review including academic, research and policy audiences.