Hierarchies and categorical power in cross-border science: analysing scientists’ transnational mobility between Ukraine and Germany
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Using the results of qualitative research in Germany and Ukraine, the article provides evidence to how the short-term and circular geographic mobility of Ukrainian natural scientists between Ukraine and Germany contributes to the formation of a cross-border scientific field. Combining Bourdieu’s field theory with the transnational field approach and the intersectional perspective, the article indicates how unequal access to scientific reputation is structured across borders. In sum, the complex interplay of ethnicity-, class- and gender-related categorizations pushes mobile scientists to define themselves as an exploited elite. At the same time, female mobile scientists are identified as having the most disadvantaged positions in the transnational academic hierarchy.
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Migration may mean that cultural capital is devalued and gender norms diverge, often effectively limiting parents' and children's future life chances.
“migration may mean that cultural capital is devalued (Weiss, 2005) and gender norms diverge (Amelina, 2013), often effectively limiting parents’ and children’s future life chances (Pratt, 2012)”
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- Authors
- Amelina, A.
- Affiliations
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Amelina, Anna
- ORCID
- Amelina, Anna
- Venue
- Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 141-155
- ISSN
- 1468-3857 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9639
- OpenAlex
- W2077454562
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 5.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Higher Education Governance and Development
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Keywords
- international academic mobility, Ukrainian scientists, academic hierarchy, Bourdieu's field theory, transnational fields, intersectionality, scientific reputation, gender inequality in academia, class inequality, ethnicity, exploitation
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