Increasing competition among research universities has spurred a race to recruit academic labor to staff research teams, graduate programs, and laboratories. Yet, often ignored is how such efforts entail negotiating a pervasive hierarchy of universities, where elite institutions in the West continue to attract the best students and researchers across the world. Based on qualitative interviews with 59 Singapore-based faculty, this paper demonstrates how migrant academics in competitive universities outside the West take on the burden of seeking other ways of attracting academic labor into their institutions, often resorting to ethnic and transnational ties to circumvent limits imposed by a hierarchical higher education landscape. Those unable to utilize these transnational strategies are less likely to maintain the pace of productivity expected by their institutions, heightening anxieties regarding tenure and promotion. In examining the Singapore case, this paper reveals the disjunctures between the increasing pressures of growing universities eager to compete in a global higher education system, and the everyday realities of academic production within these institutions.

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争夺学术劳力：学术中心外的研究和招聘

研究型大学之间日益激烈的竞争引发了为研究团队、研究生项目和实验室招聘学术劳动力的竞赛。然而，经常被忽视的是，这种努力如何需要对普遍存在的大学等级制度进行谈判，西方的精英机构继续吸引世界各地最优秀的学生和研究人员。基于对 59 名新加坡教师的定性访谈，本文展示了西方以外竞争性大学的移民学者如何承担寻找其他方式吸引学术劳动力进入其机构的负担，通常诉诸种族和跨国联系来规避强加的限制通过分层的高等教育格局。那些无法利用这些跨国战略的人不太可能保持其机构预期的生产力步伐，从而加剧了对任期和晋升的焦虑。在考察新加坡案例时，本文揭示了渴望在全球高等教育体系中竞争的成长型大学日益增加的压力与这些机构内部学术生产的日常现实之间的脱节。