Using the literature on transnationalism, this article explores overseas-trained Turkish scholars’ experiences and whether these have had any effects on their identity construction/transformation, professional and personal lives after returning home. This exploration is informed by quantitative and qualitative data collected from Turkish scholars who completed their MA and/or PhD degrees in English-speaking countries and are now working in universities as academics. Besides highlighting the differences between educational values and practices in Turkey and Western countries, this article also examines how these differences influence professional trajectories and negotiations of identities among overseas-trained academics, with follow-up references to the author’s autoethnography as a Western-trained scholar to spotlight the commonalities in the lived experiences of returnees. The results highlight the dynamic nature of overseas experiences and returning home with new competences, skills and a broadened worldview which results in returnees’ distinguishing themselves from those around them in their personal and professional transactions.

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规管跨国性？留学教育经历对土耳其回返学者生活，职业和身份的影响

本文使用关于跨国主义的文献，探讨了在海外接受培训的土耳其学者的经历，以及这些经历是否对他们返乡后的身份建构/转变，职业和个人生活有任何影响。这项探索基于从土耳其学者那里收集的定量和定性数据，这些学者在英语国家完成了文学硕士和/或博士学位，现在正在大学中从事学术研究。除了着重说明土耳其和西方国家的教育价值观与实践之间的差异外，本文还探讨了这些差异如何影响职业轨迹以及海外受过培训的学者之间的身份协商，后续提到作者作为西方受过培训的学者的民族志，以强调海归者生活经历中的共性。结果突出了海外经历的动态性质，并以新的能力，技能和广阔的世界观返回家园，这使海归人在个人和专业交易中与周围的人区分开来。