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Expatriate - Following a Migration Category (Hardcover)
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Expatriate - Following a Migration Category (Hardcover)
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Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And
why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate interrogates
the contested category of 'the expatriate' to explore its history
and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on
ethnographic and archival research, the book offers a critical
reading of International Human Resource Management literature,
explores the work and history of the Expatriate Archive Centre in
The Hague, and studies the usage and significance of the category
in Kenyan history and present-day 'expat Nairobi'. Doing so, the
book traces the figure of the expatriate from the
mid-twentieth-century era of decolonisation to today's heated
debates about migration. The expatriate emerges as a malleable and
contested category, of shifting meaning and changing membership,
and as passionately embraced by some as it is rejected by others.
The book situates the changing usage of the term in the context of
social, political and economic struggle and explores the material
and discursive work the expatriate performs in negotiating social
inequalities and power relations. Migration, the book argues, is a
key terrain on which colonial power relations have been reproduced
and translated, and migration categories are at the heart of the
insidious ways that intersecting material and symbolic inequalities
are enacted today. Any project for social justice needs to dissect
and interrogate categories like the expatriate, and this book
offers analytical and methodical strategies to advance this
project. -- .
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