In an interconnected and globally competitive environment faculty mobility across countries has become widespread yet is little understood. Grounded in qualitative methodology this volume offers a cutting-edge examination of internationally mobile academics today and explores the approaches and strategies that institutions pursue to recruit and integrate international teachers and scholars into local universities. Providing a range of research-based insights from case studies in key countries this resource offers higher education scholars and administrators a comparative perspective helping to explain the impact that international faculty have on the local university as well as issues of retention promotion salaries and the challenges faced by these internationally mobile academics. . Language: English