This book investigates a different way to gain academic job experience and start an academic career. With universities training more PhD candidates than there are academic jobs, the academic job market, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, is somewhat broken. A possibility for young PhD graduates and early career researchers to gain job experience in an ever more competitive job market is leaving their home countries and taking a job far from home. Academics move from the countries of the so-named global South to Europe and the USA, from the USA to Europe and vice versa, and increasingly also from the so-called "western World" to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Grounded in the personal experience of the editors and the chapter contributors, the book argues that there are more ways into academia and than the traditional route. Gathering the experiences of academics who have been moving to work in foreign places, among them Pakistan, Poland, China, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Portugal, and New Zealand, the book offers diverse and rich perspectives on academic mobility. What awaits the moving academic abroad, how to prepare for this move and what are the challenges and rewards in the foreign classrooms are questions the chapter contributors and editors reflect upon, ultimately wishing to help others decide whether to take this jump into the unknown.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Journeys to Going Abroad.- Part 1: Let's get moving.- Chapter 2: Douglas Bell. Travels, Tribulations and Training: How Might Academics Be Better Prepared for Working Overseas?.- Chapter 3: Mark Julien. A Canadian in Poland: Lessons Learned.- Chapter 4: Paul Petzschmann. Globetrotting Outsiders. Faculty Labour and the Global University.- Chapter 5: Kerstin Tomiak. Papers, Please! On Discovering Privilege.- Part II: The Foreign Classroom.- Chapter 6: Anthony F. Lang. Particulars and Universals: What I Learned from Teaching in Egypt.- Chapter 7: Sara Katona & Charl Swart. Becoming in Baghdad - When Normative Meets Empirical in a Classroom.- Chapter 8: Fabrizio Leto & Letizia Vallini. Teaching and Studying the Italian Language and Culture in China: Perceptions, Challenges, and Chances.- Chapter 9: Melinda Gurr. Navigating Difference and Fostering Transformative Learning: Teaching to Transgress in Pakistan.- Chapter 10: Michelle Betz. Learning, Teaching, Being: AWestern Journalism Instructor's Experience in Post-Genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 11: Part III: The Other Side.- Chapter 12: Yuting (Alina) He & Spede Mizuri Foreign Simulations, Postcolonial Entanglement, and Identity: Reflections on Studying at an International(ised) University.- Chapter 13: Giselle Garcia. Reflections on the Dramaturgy of a Foreigner.- Chapter 14: Ruairidh J. Brown. When the Roof Comes Down: Encountering Danger when Living Away from Home.- Chapter 15: Kristin M. Ferebee. Airspace, Expats, and Afghanistan: The Problem of Cosmopolitan Mobility in International Education.- Chapter 16: Jessica Cira Rubin. Making the Best Decision: Considering a Move Abroad from Both Sides, Now.- Chapter 17: Ruairidh J. Brown & Kerstin Tomiak. Concluding Thoughts on 'Moving Abroad': A Dialogue.