Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
Volume 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 236-243

Multicultural Neoliberalism and Academic Labor: Experiences of Female Immigrant Faculty in the U.S. Academy (Article)

Lawless B.* , Chen Y.-W.
  • a University of San Francisco, Department of Communication Studies, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117, United States
  • b San Diego State UniversityCA, United States

Abstract

In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines working across U.S. colleges and universities. Collectively, the women's voices converge around three primary themes pertaining to neoliberal restructuring of higher education: commodification of education, multicultural neoliberalism, and universal meritocracy. Furthermore, we explore the various ways in which cultural identities are (re)positioned by dominant ideologies of neoliberalism in the U.S. academy. Our findings develop an understanding of how neoliberal ideologies construct and reinforce marginalized identities and subjectivities at the intersection of gender, race, and immigration. © 2016 SAGE Publications.

Author Keywords

critical discourse analysis immigrant women faculty ideology Intersectionality Neoliberalism

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019559175&doi=10.1177%2f1532708616672688&partnerID=40&md5=25f93c2afcca9e580b31b4c3df265a9b

DOI: 10.1177/1532708616672688
ISSN: 15327086
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English