Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin's idée fixes in his works over the past 20 years. His recent publications with Routledge include the coedited volumes Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise', Academic Experiences of International Students in Chinese Higher Education and the coauthored title Revitalizing Interculturality in Education: Chinese Minzu as a Companion, etc.