Academic mobility promotes the development of joint research activities, broadens the horizons of researchers, lecturers and professors, and promotes knowledge flows between institutions. This book offers a contemporary perspective on the mobility of academics across the globe with contributions by authors based in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. With a focus on the context for and experience of academic mobility in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Gulf and the United States, issues such as historical perspectives and contemporary reflections, the impact of English as the 'lingua franca' of academe in South Africa, the motivations and experiences of international academics working in the United Arab Emirates, the integration of foreign-born faculty within Israeli academia, academic mobility within the US, and, the legal status of academic mobility, this volume is both comprehensive and relevant. Thirteen chapters are included: (1) Editorial introduction (Nina Maadad and Malcolm Tight); (2) Being an international academic: A phenomenological study of academic migrants adjusting to working and living in Scotland (Carolin Kreber and Jenny Hounsell); (3) Mobilised by mobility? Determinants of international mobility plans among doctoral candidates in Germany (Nicolai Netz and Steffen Jaksztat); (4) Beyond Diaspora: The Lived Experiences of Academic Mobility for educational researchers in the European higher education area (Fiona Hallett and Mustafa Yunus Eryaman); (5) The impact of mobility on the lives and careers of female and male academics in higher education (Magdalena Suárez-Ortega and Angelica Risquez); (6) Patterns and persistence in academic migration: 40 years of Australian academic migration (Anthony Potts); (7) Academic mobility and migration: Reflections of international academics in Australia (Chinthaka Balasooriya, Augustine Asante, Ranmalie Jayasinha, and Husna Razee); (8) Global academics moving down under: Living and learning a new academic culture (Nina Maadad); (9) English and the academy for African skilled migrants: The impact of English as an 'Academic lingua franca' (Ellen Hurst); (10) Academic expatriation: Experiences from within the United Arab Emirates (Kay Sanderson); (11) Insights into the successful integration of foreign-born faculty in Israeli academia: The empowering effect of in-group ethno-cultural similarity (Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen and Nitza Davidovitch); (12) "Sensitive Fences": The im/mobility of working-class academics (Signe M. Kastberg); and (13) The protection of the right to academic mobility under international human rights law (Klaus Beiter).