TY - JOUR TI - Why to employ foreign academics in Poland? Perspective of heads of university research teams AU - Łuczaj, Kamil AU - Mucha, Janusz TI - Why to employ foreign academics in Poland? Perspective of heads of university research teams AB - Academic international mobility is a long-lasting phenomenon and important aim of public policies in numerous countries. Scholarly debate usually concentrates on Western countries and some Eastern Asian scientifi c hubs like Singapore. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is understudied. In Poland, the largest CEE country, unlike in many  Western countries, public policies concerning internationalization of the academic fi eld are still under construction. Nevertheless, there is a strong pressure for internationalization. The Polish case to be discussed in this article can serve as an example of academic migration to less economically privileged regions that are usually countries of emigration of scholars rather than immigration. In this paper, by means of qualitative in-depth interviews, we concentrate on the need to invite academics from abroad and the perceptions of the actual presence of foreign scholars, employed full-time, as seen by their Polish supervisors. Geographical focus of this paper (CEE) and adopted  perspective (interviews with heads of departments supported by interviews with academics) bridge the gap in the literature on academic mobility. VL - 2018 (XLIV) IS - Nr 3 (169) PY - 2018 SN - 2081-4488 C1 - 2544-4972 SP - 185 EP - 204 DO - 10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.042.9441 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/smpp/artykul/why-to-employ-foreign-academics-in-poland-perspective-of-heads-of-university-research-teams KW - academic mobility KW - highly skilled migrants KW - Central and Eastern Europe KW - immigration to Poland