Much More Than a Gold Rush: Expatriation as an Emancipatory Journey
(2020) Southern Management Association Annual Meeting (SMA 2020) — Location: Florida (US) (20.October.2020)
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- While the growing phenomenon of highly-qualified workers who autonomously expatriate (SIEs) has resulted in gains in understanding, little attention has been paid to what this project represents from the perspective of the individual who engages in it. This resulted, most of the time, in major issues regarding how to properly manage these workers. This article investigates what lies behind the self-initiated expatriation framed from the perspective of expatriates, as a departure from an organisation, much more than just a move to a specific destination. This radical shift in the way to investigate self-initiated expatriates enables us to grasp such expatriation as an emancipatory journey—from one constraining organisation- to another environment abroad, where the individual aspires to experience a working life more in line with their expectations. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with SIEs, we mobilize Rancière’s philosophy of emancipation to understand how workers construct their expatriation journeys as a symbolic answer to an organisation that failed in understanding who these workers feel that they are.
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Moulaï, K., & Taskin, L. (2020). Much More Than a Gold Rush: Expatriation as an Emancipatory Journey. Southern Management Association Annual Meeting (SMA 2020), Florida (US). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219786