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Foreigners and Inclusion in Academia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Saray Ayala‐López
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Abstract

This article discusses the category of foreigner in the context of academia. In the first part I explore this category and its philosophical significance. A quick look at the literature reveals that this category needs more attention in analyses of dimensions of privilege and disadvantage. Foreignness has peculiarities that demarcate it from other categories of identity, and it intersects with them in complicated ways. Devoting more attention to it would enable addressing issues affecting foreigners in academia that go commonly unnoticed. In the second part of the article I argue that current efforts to make academia a more inclusive environment should address the disadvantages that many foreign academics face. I focus on two senses of foreigner: working and living in a country that is not your country of origin, and being a nonnative speaker of the language in which you work.

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Cluster on Foreigners in Philosophy
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Hypatia , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , Spring 2018 , pp. 325 - 342
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Copyright © 2018 by Hypatia, Inc.

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