[Commlist] New book: Always an Academic Immigrant: A Collective Memoir

The new book by Dafna Lemish (dafna.lemish /at/ rutgers.edu) 
<mailto:(dafna.lemish /at/ rutgers.edu)>

has just been published by Rutgers Press and is available at 
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/always-an-academic-immigrant/9781978843615/ 
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/always-an-academic-immigrant/9781978843615/>

Description:

Immigrant employees play an essential role in every industry, including 
academia, but the unique experiences of immigrant professors have 
received little study. Given that academia has its own distinctive 
cultural norms, do immigrant academics experience the same kinds of 
challenges endured by other immigrants?

/Always an Academic Immigrant///is a collective memoir that gives voice 
to eighty-one academics who immigrated from thirty-seven countries for a 
career in an institution of higher education, in either the United 
States or one of ten other countries. Through in-depth interviews and 
observations from her own experiences as an immigrant scholar, Dafna 
Lemish shares the highs and the lows that academic immigrants feel as 
they search for both a country and an institution they can call home. 
She discovers the formative events that led these scholars to pursue 
careers outside their native lands and details the challenges they faced 
adapting to unspoken expectations in their new countries and workplaces. 
Ultimately, this book reveals the strategies that immigrant professors 
use to bridge their native and adoptive cultures while highlighting the 
vital contributions they have made to academia as scholars, teachers, 
and leaders.

Contents:

1 The Journey: Why This Book?

2 The Seeds: Do Childhood Experiences Prepare for Immigration?

3 The Voyage: What Are the Reasons for Immigration?

4 The Challenges: Why Is Immigration So Difficult?

5 The Benefits: What Are These Academics Uniquely Contributing?

6 The Home: Where Is Home for Academic Immigrants?

7 The Bridge: What Keeps Immigrants Connected?

8 The Return: Would They Consider Going Back?

9 The Support: What Can Be Done to Help Academic Immigrants?

Postscript: Once an Immigrant, Always an Immigrant

Notes
Index

Cover Reviews:

"This pioneer journey by Dafna Lemish—half research, half reflexive 
memoir—highlights private struggles and invaluable contributions of 
migrant academics to American, European, Australian, and other 'Western' 
universities as professors and researchers. Outsiders socialized in 
non-Western contexts, academic immigrants introduce alternative agendas 
and new insights on old issues. Unable to fully assimilate, they often 
challenge and 'shake' the established paradigms and mindsets among their 
colleagues and students alike. This is an equally exciting read for 
academics in the fields of immigration and higher education and broad 
audiences interested in intellectual diversity and intercultural 
dialogue." Larissa Remennick, author of Russian Jews on Three 
Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict

"This book is a tour de force on migrant scholars, a critical and 
understudied topic. Lemish deftly weaves personal narratives from an 
impressive set of interviews with perceptive observations and arguments. 
It powerfully shows why 'the personal is intellectual and political' and 
reveals its impact on personal lives and scholarship. A must-read for 
anyone interested in academic globalization." Silvio Waisbord, professor 
of media and public affairs at The George Washington University

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