Fazendo pesquisas em movimento: reflexões sobre minha trajetória acadêmica entre Brasil, Inglaterra e Canadá.

This brief essay is based on my personal experiences of transnational mobility through Brazil, the England and Canada. I reflect on the notions and social experiences of return and biographical illusion (Bourdieu, 1996) in the lives of migrants and researchers, juxtaposing my individual migrations with the research projects I have been working on since 2013, when I started my master's degree, until 2022, when I began my post-doctorate. By analysing my own academic early-career, marked by spatial and institutional discontinuity and crossed by different research projects related to transnational migrations, I reflect on some of the main contemporary professional and existential challenges faced by recently graduated anthropologists. Early-career researchers find themselves in an increasingly competitive and excluding job market, in which internationalization becomes a fundamental professional strategy. I also present a brief testimonial of how the Covid-19 pandemic affected my doctoral research, whose fieldwork would originally happen in 2020.