Apart from global inequalities and structural obstacles at the university level, there are additional discipline-specific challenges concerning internationalisation work in higher education. This paper will discuss these issues in relation to social work as an academic discipline and profession and from the perspective of my work as an international coordinator and assistant professor in a social work education programme in a Swedish context. First, I introduce social work as an ambiguous discipline and profession concerning its nationalised-international nexus. By drawing attention to a concrete current political development, I discuss the paradoxical relationship between, on the one hand, the global definition of social work and, on the other hand, criticism of nationalised social work and its Eurocentrism and professional imperialism. Addressing decolonial critical pedagogy and the notions of epistemic disobedience, unlearning, and pluriversity, I discuss how to work for change within the mentioned constraints.