Published in Higher education
Non-nationals constitute up to a quarter of the academic staff workforce of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Their motivations to 'work abroad', and their experiences of doing so, are, however, under-researched, especially where migration is to or within the global South. We report a study conducted among internationally mobile acade...
Published in Cities (London, England)
Since the COVID-19 outbreaks, extensive studies have focused on mobility changes to demonstrate the pandemic effect; some studies identified remarkable mobility declines and revealed a negative relationship between mobility and the number of COVID-19 cases. However, counter-arguments have been raised, exemplifying insignificant variations, recupera...
Published in EPJ data science
Most of the studies related to human mobility are focused on intra-country mobility. However, there are many scenarios (e.g., spreading diseases, migration) in which timely data on international commuters are vital. Mobile phones represent a unique opportunity to monitor international mobility flows in a timely manner and with proper spatial aggreg...
This paper aims at presenting some research results which investigated the formative experience and its effects on the pedagogical conceptions of Basic, Technical and Technological Education of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology teachers who participated in continuous training in Finland, through international mobility. Thi...
Published in Education and information technologies
This paper is based on research studies conducted in the academic community of students and staff members (teachers, researchers and administrative staff) from 16 European universities that focus on digital learning in international mobility. The context of our qualitative study is digital learning during an international mobility scheme when unive...
This article explores how organizational mobility and foreign nationality affect a researcher's chances of an internal career promotion in university systems that do not have rules preventing inbreeding and where teaching occurs mostly not in English but a local language. As a case study, we have examined the Flemish university system, the Dutch sp...
Published in Economics and Human Biology
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered severe global restrictions on international travel with the intention of limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 across countries. This paper studies the causal effect of the partial relaxation of these travel restrictions in Europe on the COVID-19 incidence in Germany during the summer months of 2020. It exploits the ...
Published in Genus
Previous literature has suggested that PhD students’ mobility has become a fundamental step during doctoral studies, both for training purposes and for creating transnational research networks. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in migration of highly educated and highly skilled Italians. Most studies concentrate on employment-r...
Cette thèse en sciences de l’éducation s’inscrit dans la foulée des travaux s’intéressant aux facteurs responsables du décrochage des étudiants internationaux en France, le cas d’étudiants congolais décrocheurs à l’Université de Strasbourg. Elle propose une analyse du métier d’étudiant international, qui vise à croiser, de manière diachronique dans...
The article analyzes the international mobilities of researchers from four disciplinary commissions of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, CONICET, Argentina (N = 2090). It is drawn a panorama of the destinations of mobilities, and it is searched to understand the meaning of them from disciplinary and institutionally conditi...
