Copyright

Victoria Reyes

Published On

2026-04-29

Language

  • English

Print Length

14 pages

THEMA

  • JBFH
  • JHB
  • JHBA
  • JN
  • JBFA

BISAC

  • SOC007000
  • SOC026000
  • SOC026040
  • SOC008000
  • EDU015000

Keywords

  • migrant academics
  • academic precarity
  • academic mobility
  • autoethnography
  • postcolonial academia
  • global higher education

Afterword

Fractal Whiteness in a Violent World

Chapter of: From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

In this closing chapter, Victoria Reyes offers a comprehensive reflection on the volume by synthesizing its core arguments, themes, and case studies through what she calls fractal Whiteness. By situating the chapters within broader debates on precarity, migration and academia, her synthesis underscores the volume’s contribution to theory building and its challenge to conventional narratives of successful academic mobility. Ultimately, this conclusion not only ties together the book’s multiple strands; it also offers re-imagined possibilities for future research and activism.

Contributors

Victoria Reyes

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1372-189X

Victoria Reyes (PhD) is an associate professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. A feminist trained in sociology, she is author of two multiple award-winning books: “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope” (Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2022) and “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire” (Stanford University Press, 2019).