ABSTRACT
Over the past decades, academic and student mobility has surged unforeseen numbers globally with the support of policy initiatives and funding incentives within wider globalization processes. Hence, mobility has become a part of the academic life for a wider number of people. Despite the expansion and inclusion of many new actors, the mobility decisions invariably reproduce the already existing structures of inequalities. The ongoing crisis such as the pandemic and climate change challenge to reimagine the recurring mobility motives. In this chapter, we discuss the intersections of national interests and governing structures constructing the global mobility flows. We also discuss the challenges that the academic mobility is already facing including climate change, neo-nationalism and health crisis, and consider the future of the academic mobility. Throughout, we reference global North/South disparities. This approach indicates that the crisis in/of universities are a result of much more than the neoliberal project. We suggest that the crisis in/of universities is best comprehended as an expression of conjunctural crises.
