Internacionalização da educação superior: tensões, cenários e estratégias nos casos Brasil e Espanha

: This article presents reflections derived from the post-doctoral internship that aimed to learn about the process of internationalization of higher education in Brazil and Spain, considering objectives, strategies and ten - sions. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted and relevant documents on the subject were analyzed, such as the proposal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) through Public Notice No. 41/2017, available at WEB Capes (2017) and the document Strategy for the internationalization of Spa - nish universities 2015-2020. Bourdieu’s theory in the scientific field has allowed us to see that the strategies used for the internationalization of higher education, most outstanding modern times, are also part of the power struggle and the monopoly of scientific authority among national and international academic institutions.