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Publication Date: 2024
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World-Travelling: Foreign-Born Faculty Women of Color Navigating Multiple Identities in US Academia
Karla I. Loya; Rachel E. Friedensen; Hyun K. Ro
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n4 p1156-1173 2024
Framed by post- and decolonial feminist perspectives and using Lugones's concept of "world-travelling," we examined the shared experiences of foreign-born faculty women of color in navigating U.S. colleges and universities. We employed a qualitative interpretative phenomenological research design and conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 self-identified foreign-born faculty women of color (FBFWOC). We found that these women continually performed multiple, and at times conflicting, identities as they travelled in and out of academic and non-academic worlds. In doing so, they deployed strategies that required additional efforts to successfully function in their faculty roles. The world-travelling that FBFWOC engage in involves a constant learning process that, while enriching, also taxes their time and energy. This world-travelling is a form of border thinking and resisting forms of difference. We offer suggestions for future research and implications for practice.
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, Self Concept, Professional Identity, Racial Identification, Travel, Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Power Structure, Disadvantaged, Social Influences
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