| Title | Introduction |
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| Subtitle | Migrant Academics Narrating Their Precarity: The Exhausting, the Imperative, and the Joyful |
| Contributor | Ladan Rahbari(author) |
| Olga Burlyuk(author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0508.00 |
| Landing page | http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.00 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ladan Rahbari; Olga Burlyuk |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-29 |
| Long abstract | In this chapter, the editors introduce the book and place it in dialogue with the first volume on the subject they co-edited (Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe, OBP, 2023). In doing so, they detail the intentions and the process of working on this book, the understanding of academic migrancy, transnational mobility, precarity and resilience and the choice of (creative) narrative writing as an academic method for this project. Finally, the editors introduce the stories in this book and suggest several ways to read them. |
| Print length | 20 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Ladan Rahbari (PhD Mult.) is a political sociologist and writer, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She was formerly based at Ghent University, Belgium, as the recipient of an FWO postdoctoral fellowship (granted by the Research Foundation Flanders) (2019–2022). She is a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy (2021–2026). Rahbari is co-director and a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and a member of the board of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M). Her research interests include gender politics, migration, the body, and decoloniality, with a focus on Iran and Western Europe, within the frameworks of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories. Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt), where she is currently a board member. In 2025, she published her first novel, Exilium.
Olga Burlyuk (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Europe’s external relations at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Olga conducts research at the intersection of international relations, European politics, gender studies, migration studies and cultural policy studies, and employs critical theories and interpretive methods in social sciences. Olga has co-edited several publications, including The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine (JIRD, 2023), Migrant academics’ narratives of precarity and resilience in Europe (OBP, 2023), Unintended consequences of EU external action (Routledge, 2020), and Civil society in post-Euromaidan Ukraine (CUP, 2019). Olga is affiliate at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS), Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M) and Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS). She holds a PhD in International Relations (University of Kent, UK) and Master’s in Law (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine) and European Studies (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands).