Mobility of non-European researchers in the Mediterranean. The Italy-Spain relationships

To this day, academic mobility has acquired increasingly marked traits of a true migratory phenomenon. In Italy and Spain, the internationalization strategies at supranational and institutional level, and the presence of tutor figures in the country of origin and destination could steer the mobility choice of foreign researchers and could be driving forces for academic migration, especially where the national context is not favorable for the permanence of these resources. This paper is complementary to the video presented by the author at Blue Planet Economy (BPE) European Maritime Forum 2021.