📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…
This piece is a result of my own lived experiences as a global south scholar in north countries and of SO many of my friends & colleagues. This piece also is a cold-email collab. with @TiffanyDJoseph who studies immigration with sociopolitical lens & minority tax! 2/n
@mayank_mchugh THIS 👆 is why I struggle to understand why some researchrs from the global north argue they do not want to attend @ISME_microbes first meeting on the African continent because of their carbon footprint. The consequence is scientific segregation.
@mayank_mchugh Thanks, Mayank. For this article, were you able to explore how complex the process is for international students/scholars from the Global South who wish to study in some relatively well-established (specific fields/labs) countries in the Global South?
@mayank_mchugh As an immigrant researcher in the US currently exploring permanent residence options (so that I won't have to deal with visa shenanigans anymore), I have to say the sheer number of arbitrary hoops you have to jump through is outright comical.
@mayank_mchugh And your citizenship will also influence the funding you can apply for, at least for EU funding 😢