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Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Paperback)
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Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Paperback)

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Published: 28/01/2025
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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 Managementliterature, 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.

Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781526182579
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 367 g
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm


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Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2024‘By focussing on the trajectory of a social category so many of us take for granted, this book offers a creative, critical and provocative engagement with the discursive and postcolonial history of the ways we think about migration more generally. For anyone concerned about the ways migration and mobility have been, and continue to be, governed, imagined and experienced, this book is an essential read.’Tariq Jazeel, University College London‘Kunz’s delicate, scholarly tapestry of ethnography and Kenyan independence archives reveals how the category ‘expatriate’ is entangled in the shifting postcolonial power dynamics of migration and the murky politics of oil. A must read for migration scholars.’Caroline Knowles, Queen Mary, University of London‘Brilliant, insightful and often surprising, this book leverages the ever changing social category “expatriate” to explore the intersections of race, colonialism, management and migration. Scholarly work at its best.’Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol - .

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