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AuthorAbigail Calvert
TitleExperiences of expat partners in Amsterdam
SupervisorPatrick Brown
Year2011
Pages48
FacultyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Institute/dept.FMG: International School for Humanities and Social Sciences
ProgrammeFMG Social Policy and Social Work in Urban Areas
AbstractThis study will explore the intersections between high modernity, identity, and emotions. This research places itself in a time when the world is continuing to become more integrated and people are moving around much more. A particular group of people moving around the globe are employees of international companies. Much research has been done about these expatriates but along with these expatriates comes partners and families members. Little is known about their experiences. It is the aim of this research to understand their experiences more pointedly. Exploring expatriate partners and their identity and emotion work in high modernity will allow us to understand these highly researcher topics more concretely and from a differing perspective. The work of Anthony Giddens, Michael Bury, and Arie Hochschild will be employed as a way of understand the experiences of expatriate partners. The question this research will pursue is what are the experiences of expatriates’ partners? This question will be answered by the following sub questions: In what ways do moves abroad represent fateful moments? How do expatriates’ partners manage identity narrative in this context? What emotion work in involved in managing identity and coping?
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