Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an understudied topic. Even less has been the interest in connecting such bonds with the internationalization of careers and knowledge. In this article, the authors aim at filling this gap by studying what role personal bonds have played in the internationalization of the social sciences in Latin America. They identify factors that affect personal bonds as well as translations that scholars produce to capitalize on these ties. The most relevant of such translations, academic mobility, has to be interpreted, from a peripheral standpoint, as operating within a logic of leveling, a process that highlights structural asymmetries in the global social sciences. The authors describe both dimensions of this process and, in the concluding section, offer some policy implications and future research directions.

由于对工作中正式关系的兴趣或定义个人手段的困难，社会科学中的个人纽带一直是一个未被研究的话题。将这种纽带与职业和知识的国际化联系起来的兴趣甚至更少。在本文中，作者旨在通过研究个人纽带在拉丁美洲社会科学国际化中所扮演的角色来填补这一空白。他们确定了影响个人纽带的因素以及学者为了利用这些纽带而进行的翻译。此类翻译中最相关的是学术流动性，必须从外围的角度来解释，因为它是在衡量逻辑的基础上进行的，该过程突显了全球社会科学中的结构性不对称。