Expatriate

Following a Migration Category

Sarah Kunz

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English

Manchester University Press
01 February 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology & anthropology; Human geography

Following the expatriate offers an in-depth exploration of the history and politics of the category expatriate. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, the book tells situated stories about the category's making, re-making, contestation and lived experience. It traces the expatriate's transformation since the mid-20th century era of decolonisation, and locates the changing usage of the expatriate 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. The expatriate emerges as a polysemic and contested, mobile and malleable category whose transformations speak to broader reconfigurations of power and privilege. As the book demonstrates, migration and its categories form a key terrain on which imperial and colonial power relations are reproduced and translated, and offers innovative analytical and methodical strategies to study these processes.

By: Sarah Kunz
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781526154293
ISBN 10: 1526154293
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 February 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Following the expatriate: theoretical and methodological starting points Part I: The historical expatriate 2 From colonial civil servant to expatriate at the eve of Kenyan independence 3 Towards a new breed of expatriate manager in international business 4 Remaking the Shell expatriate: from company wife to global citizen Part II: The expatriate today 5 Making international expats in Nairobi 6 Archiving the temporary expatriate 7 Studying expatriates: academic divisions of (skilled) labour Conclusion Index -- .

Sarah Kunz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Essex.

Reviews for Expatriate: Following a Migration Category

‘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 -- .