This article looks at the relatively understudied phenomenon of short-term international mobility of faculty from the critical internationalization perspective. It uses data from interviews with academics from Kazakhstan, who participated in short-term professional development trips abroad to understand who benefits and who loses as a result of short-term faculty mobility and how the short-term international mobility may contribute to the process of reproduction of the existing social structures and inequality. Critical internationalization perspective in general, as well as mobility paradigm more specifically, helps to reveal some important insights about short-term international mobility from a non-Western country to predominantly Western institutions. The main conclusion from the study is that host university’s engagement in hosting mobile faculty coming on short visits seems to be driven predominantly by the neoliberal profit-seeking motives rather than by a more humanistic desire to serve the larger global society by sharing its expertise or to engage in equal and mutually beneficial partnership relationships.

本文从批判性国际化的角度研究了教师短期国际流动的相对被忽视的现象。它使用来自哈萨克斯坦学者的访谈数据，这些学者参加了国外的短期专业发展旅行，以了解谁因短期教师流动而受益，而谁亏损，以及短期国际流动如何对哈萨克斯坦的发展做出贡献。现有社会结构和不平等的再现。总体而言，批判性的国际化观点以及更具体的流动性范式有助于揭示一些关于从非西方国家到主要是西方机构的短期国际流动性的重要见解。