ABSTRACT
This chapter problematizes the ways in which higher education scholars are expected and compelled to be mobile or, conversely, are unable to move across borders. It explores the ways that mobility infuses the lives of higher education scholars. The chapter reviews contemporary and historical manifestations of scholarly mobility and immobility to demonstrate how academic spatialities and (im)mobilities are entangled with temporalities that are uneven and unequal. It argues that the globalized academic profession is governed through mobility in uneven ways, as some academics enact their choice to travel, while others are forced to be mobile, and others are simply unable to move across borders. Mobility and immobility are viewed not as distinct processes, but as being embedded within and paradoxically presupposing each other. Together the pulling and pushing, openings and blockages across time and space that (de)limit academic mobility constitute the global academic assemblage.
