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This chapter explores the cross-border student movements of Palestinian citizens from Israel who study (studied) at Palestinian universities in the occupied West Bank. Drawing on the concept of ‘mobility capital’, it argues that their cross-border moves reveal a wide range of defensively-oriented mobilising strategies which Palestinian students have had to adopt not only to move but to maintain their presence, access their rights, and secure their future livelihoods in Israel. Arguing that these cross-border student mobilities represent a counter-hegemonic form of capital accumulation that is heavily reliant on the bridging work of informal networks, it seeks to advance recent calls to centre settler colonialism within the field of mobilities while drawing attention to the more complex and vulnerable interconnections that exist between mobility, mobility capital and the pursuit of mobility justice in settler-colonial contexts.
Author(s): McGahern U
Editor(s): Courtois, A. Marginson, S. & Montgomery, C. & Sidhu, R.
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: The Future of Cross-Border Academic Mobilities and Immobilities: Power, Knowledge and Agency
Year: 2026
Pages: 99–112
Print publication date: 11/12/2025
Online publication date: 26/11/2025
Acceptance date: 08/10/2024
Series Title: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Place Published: London
URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350502437
DOI: 10.5040/9781350502437
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781350502406
