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Afterword Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World

Victoria Reyes(author)

Chapter of: From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

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Title	Afterword
Subtitle	Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World
Contributor	Victoria Reyes(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.22
Landing page	http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.22
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright	Victoria Reyes
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Published on	2026-04-29
Long abstract	In this closing chapter, Victoria Reyes offers a comprehensive reflection on the volume by synthesizing its core arguments, themes, and case studies through what she calls fractal Whiteness. By situating the chapters within broader debates on precarity, migration and academia, her synthesis underscores the volume’s contribution to theory building and its challenge to conventional narratives of successful academic mobility. Ultimately, this conclusion not only ties together the book’s multiple strands; it also offers re-imagined possibilities for future research and activism.
Print length	14 pages
Language	English (Original)
THEMA	JBFH JHB JHBA JN JBFA
BISAC	SOC007000 SOC026000 SOC026040 SOC008000 EDU015000
Keywords	migrant academics academic precarity academic mobility autoethnography postcolonial academia global higher education

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Victoria Reyes

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Associate Professor at University of California, Riverside

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1372-189X

Victoria Reyes (PhD) is an associate professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. A feminist trained in sociology, she is author of two multiple award-winning books: “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope” (Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2022) and “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire” (Stanford University Press, 2019).

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