From a philosophical inquiry to a surprising consistency: Considering the self-initiated expatriation as an emancipatory project
(2018) EGOS — Location: Tallin (4.July.2018)
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- For more than a decade, progress has been made by researchers to better understand Self-initiated Expatriation (SIE), should it be in the identification of motivations and reasons to explain their movement or in the interest paid to push factors (see for example Selmer & Lauring, 2011; Richardson et al., 2002; Suutari and Brewster, 2000). However, despite these efforts, the SIE still suffers, in its theorization, from limitations that generally just capture it as a geographic job mobility. Also, willing to go beyond this general conception, we decided to give voice to SIE’s in order to explore their own reality. Mobilizing the lens provided by Rancière’s philosophy of emancipation, we plunged into deeper layers of an organizational context that has been left, revealing the potential of Self-initiated Expatriation to be an emancipatory project. Recreating a powerful chronological analysis, this empirical study revealed in turn the ethical potential as well as the conditions of this project. Our inquiry engages with the importance to reintegrate the organizational context in an attempt to seize, not only the complex and consistent alternative nature of the SIE, but above all, its sense.
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Moulaï, K., & Taskin, L. (2018). From a philosophical inquiry to a surprising consistency: Considering the self-initiated expatriation as an emancipatory project. EGOS, Tallin. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/92582