Free Movement of People and Capital and the Standard of Transnational Academic Mobility: Principles of Governance in the European Research Area

Autor/in	Leemann, Regula Julia
Titel	Free Movement of People and Capital and the Standard of Transnational Academic Mobility: Principles of Governance in the European Research Area
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 17 (2018) 6, S.857-876 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Leemann, Regula Julia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904118773946
Schlagwörter	Governance; Freedom; Higher Education; Postdoctoral Education; Entrepreneurship; Researchers; Occupational Mobility; Foreign Countries; Familiarity; Knowledge Economy; Economics; Human Capital; Barriers; Research Opportunities; Switzerland; European Union + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Freiheit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unternehmungsgeist; Researcher; Forscher; Berufliche Mobilität; Ausland; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Humankapital; Forschungshaushalt; Schweiz
Abstract	The project of establishing a European community since World War II has been further advanced by adding - besides the four freedoms of free movement of goods, persons, services and capital - a fifth freedom -- the free circulation of researchers, knowledge and technology -- that intends to promote community building at the level of higher education and research and by creating of a European Research Area (ERA). Based on a study of academic careers of postdocs in Switzerland and secondary data, the paper aims to analyse the key governing principles implied in the standard of transnational academic mobility of 'human capital' as well as the experiences of individual researchers in coordinating their interests and lives in this context. We refer to the theoretical framework of the economics of conventions and regimes of engagements by Boltanski and Thévenot. We show that the policies, values and norms of the ERA and the standard of geographic mobility are, at their core, based on four conventions -- industry, market, project and fame. This arrangement forces researchers to establish themselves as academic self-entrepreneurs in the knowledge market. In consequence, the mobility requirement of the ERA governance regime makes it difficult for individuals to engage in an individual plan, in familiarity and in exploration. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01