Expatriate: Following a migration category

Sarah Kunz

doi:10.7765/9781526154309

What does expatriate mean? Who gets described as an expatriate rather than a migrant? And why do such distinctions matter? Following the expatriate explores these questions by tracing the postcolonial genealogy of the category expatriate from mid-twentieth-century decolonisation to current debates about migration, and examining the current stakes of debates about expatriates. As the book shows, the question of who is an expatriate was as hotly debated in 1961 as it is today. Back then, as now, it was entangled in the racialised, classed and gendered politics of migration and mobility. Combining ethnographic and historical research, the book discusses uses of the expatriate across academic literature, corporate management and international development practice, personal memory projects, and urban diaspora spaces in The Hague and Nairobi. It tells situated stories about the category’s making and remaking, its contestation and the lived experience of those labelled expatriate. By attending to racialised, gendered and classed struggles over who is an expatriate, the book shows that migration categories are at the heart of how intersecting material and symbolic social inequalities are enacted today. Any project for social justice thus needs to dissect and dismantle categories like the expatriate, and the book offers innovative analytical and methodological strategies to advance this project.

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Front Matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

Introduction
pp 1-12

1 - Following the expatriate: Theoretical and methodological starting points
pp 13-46

Part I - The historical expatriate
pp 47-48

2 - From colonial civil servant to expatriate at the eve of Kenyan independence
pp 49-88

3 - Towards a new breed of expatriate manager in international business
pp 89-119

4 - Remaking the Shell expatriate: From company wife to global citizen
pp 120-150

Part II - The expatriate today
pp 151-152

5 - Making international expats in Nairobi
pp 153-186

6 - Archiving the temporary expatriate
pp 187-215

7 - Studying expatriates: Academic divisions of (skilled) labour
pp 216-247

Conclusion
pp 248-259

References
pp 260-296

Index
pp 297-304

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