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Have you read first online #OA article by Reiko Yoshida, Naomi Kurata & Kiyomi Yamada 'Realities of imagined communities: collective autoethnography of identities and emotions of Japanese female international academics in Australian universities' in AER? https://loom.ly/W7gGmVc

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Realities of imagined communities: collective autoethnography of identities and emotions of Japanese female international academics in Australian universities - The Australian Educational Researcher The present study is a collective autoethnography, exploring the academic identities of three international academics, all Japanese women who came to Australia in the late 1990s and have been working as Japanese language teachers and researchers in Australian universities for around 12 years. We began by writing about the experiences that had affected our academic identities, and the emotions triggered by those experiences, then exchanged these self-narratives, and discussed them as a group. ... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13384-026-00966-1