Transnational academic mobility, knowledge, and identity capital

This article begins with the contemporary context of transnational academic mobility, and sketches a typology of mobile academics according to their self-identification. UK examples are offered as the main case study here. The article will then explore the relations of mobile academics and their embodied and encultured knowledge. It employs a concept of 'transnational identity capital' to discuss the position of transnational mobile academic intellectuals as a 'stranger' as inspired by Simmel's sociology of space. Keywords: transnational academic mobilityencultured knowledgeidentity capitalacademic intellectualsSimmelposition of a stranger Notes 1. See http://tuning.unideusto.org/tuningeu/ 2. See http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/Bologna/2010_conference/documents/Budapest-Vienna_Declaration.pdf 3. See http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/bologna/conference/documents/Leuven_Louvain-la-Neuve_Communiqu%C3%A9_April_2009.pdf 4. See http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2973 5. See http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/poststudy/ 6. See http://unideusto.org/tuning/