Engaging with higher education back home: Experiences of African academic diaspora in the US
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https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v11iWinter.1545Keywords:
Academic diaspora, African born faculty in the US, transnational engagement in higher educationAbstract
The research examines the transnational engagement of African born academics in the US. It explores the various dimensions of their multiple and complex constituencies as immigrant academics on one hand, and as academic diaspora on the other.
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