Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Qian Gong is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Toni Dobinson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Post Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics at Curtin University, Australia.Maggie McAlinden is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the postgraduate TESOL program in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

• Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden) 1. Speaking across difference: Autoethnography as a living practice of resistance and truth-telling (Marilyn Metta) Part 1: Autoethnographies: East Asia 2. Folk theories of hierarchies of things and spaces in between (Zhu Hua) 3. As rare as unicorns (Saba Ghezili and Angel M.Y. Lin) 4. The unbearable weight of the accent (Yue Zhao and Qian Gong) 5. The academic transitions of Mongolian postgraduate students in Australia (Bolormaa Shinjee,Chuluuntumur Damdin, Hana Tserenkhand Byambadash, Nandin- Erdene Bayart and Stephanie Dryden) 6. More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion and silence at ‘home’ (Uma Jogulu and Maggie McAlinden) 7. Feminist reflection on academic life trajectories: The constant ‘becoming’ (Shalia Sultana, Preeti Singh and Ulemj Dovchin) 8. Autoethnographic narratives from two South Asian researchers in global health (Jaya A.R. Dantas and Zakia Jeemi) Part 3: Autoethnographies: South America 9. South to North: Diversity as an academic asset (Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Lucía Fraiese) 10. Gender, racial and social discrimination in academic studies in Brazil: A personal testimony (Gladis Massini-Cagliari) Part 4: Autoethnographies: Africa 11. Negotiating and (re)constructing identities as translingual female Mauritian academics (Mylene Biquette, Nirvana Lavictoire and Toni Dobinson) 12. Negotiating identity and language: A reflexive account of Ghanaian and Iraqi migrant academic women in the Global North (Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako, Shaymaa Ali, Ana Tankosić) Part 5: Autoethnographies: Eastern Europe 13. From self- doubt to resilience: Lived experiences of four Ukrainian female academics coming to Australia (Tetiana Bogachenko, Iryna Khodos, Nadezhda Chubko and Larysa Chybis) 14. Sliding cultures: Unrecognised cultural and linguistic diversity in academia (Sonja Kuzich, Toni Dobinson) Afterword: Negotiating linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden)

Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Qian Gong is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Toni Dobinson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Post Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics at Curtin University, Australia.Maggie McAlinden is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the postgraduate TESOL program in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

• Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden) 1. Speaking across difference: Autoethnography as a living practice of resistance and truth-telling (Marilyn Metta) Part 1: Autoethnographies: East Asia 2. Folk theories of hierarchies of things and spaces in between (Zhu Hua) 3. As rare as unicorns (Saba Ghezili and Angel M.Y. Lin) 4. The unbearable weight of the accent (Yue Zhao and Qian Gong) 5. The academic transitions of Mongolian postgraduate students in Australia (Bolormaa Shinjee,Chuluuntumur Damdin, Hana Tserenkhand Byambadash, Nandin- Erdene Bayart and Stephanie Dryden) 6. More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion and silence at ‘home’ (Uma Jogulu and Maggie McAlinden) 7. Feminist reflection on academic life trajectories: The constant ‘becoming’ (Shalia Sultana, Preeti Singh and Ulemj Dovchin) 8. Autoethnographic narratives from two South Asian researchers in global health (Jaya A.R. Dantas and Zakia Jeemi) Part 3: Autoethnographies: South America 9. South to North: Diversity as an academic asset (Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Lucía Fraiese) 10. Gender, racial and social discrimination in academic studies in Brazil: A personal testimony (Gladis Massini-Cagliari) Part 4: Autoethnographies: Africa 11. Negotiating and (re)constructing identities as translingual female Mauritian academics (Mylene Biquette, Nirvana Lavictoire and Toni Dobinson) 12. Negotiating identity and language: A reflexive account of Ghanaian and Iraqi migrant academic women in the Global North (Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako, Shaymaa Ali, Ana Tankosić) Part 5: Autoethnographies: Eastern Europe 13. From self- doubt to resilience: Lived experiences of four Ukrainian female academics coming to Australia (Tetiana Bogachenko, Iryna Khodos, Nadezhda Chubko and Larysa Chybis) 14. Sliding cultures: Unrecognised cultural and linguistic diversity in academia (Sonja Kuzich, Toni Dobinson) Afterword: Negotiating linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden)

Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Qian Gong is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.Toni Dobinson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Post Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics at Curtin University, Australia.Maggie McAlinden is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the postgraduate TESOL program in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

• Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden) 1. Speaking across difference: Autoethnography as a living practice of resistance and truth-telling (Marilyn Metta) Part 1: Autoethnographies: East Asia 2. Folk theories of hierarchies of things and spaces in between (Zhu Hua) 3. As rare as unicorns (Saba Ghezili and Angel M.Y. Lin) 4. The unbearable weight of the accent (Yue Zhao and Qian Gong) 5. The academic transitions of Mongolian postgraduate students in Australia (Bolormaa Shinjee,Chuluuntumur Damdin, Hana Tserenkhand Byambadash, Nandin- Erdene Bayart and Stephanie Dryden) 6. More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion and silence at ‘home’ (Uma Jogulu and Maggie McAlinden) 7. Feminist reflection on academic life trajectories: The constant ‘becoming’ (Shalia Sultana, Preeti Singh and Ulemj Dovchin) 8. Autoethnographic narratives from two South Asian researchers in global health (Jaya A.R. Dantas and Zakia Jeemi) Part 3: Autoethnographies: South America 9. South to North: Diversity as an academic asset (Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Lucía Fraiese) 10. Gender, racial and social discrimination in academic studies in Brazil: A personal testimony (Gladis Massini-Cagliari) Part 4: Autoethnographies: Africa 11. Negotiating and (re)constructing identities as translingual female Mauritian academics (Mylene Biquette, Nirvana Lavictoire and Toni Dobinson) 12. Negotiating identity and language: A reflexive account of Ghanaian and Iraqi migrant academic women in the Global North (Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako, Shaymaa Ali, Ana Tankosić) Part 5: Autoethnographies: Eastern Europe 13. From self- doubt to resilience: Lived experiences of four Ukrainian female academics coming to Australia (Tetiana Bogachenko, Iryna Khodos, Nadezhda Chubko and Larysa Chybis) 14. Sliding cultures: Unrecognised cultural and linguistic diversity in academia (Sonja Kuzich, Toni Dobinson) Afterword: Negotiating linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden)