ABSTRACT

While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the connections between gender and migration rarely consider these kind of migrants. This volume fills these gaps by investigating impact of relocation on gender and family relations among today’s transnational professionals.

chapter |20 pages

The Shell Ladies' Project

Making and Remaking Home

chapter |22 pages

Shopping for a Hypernational Home

How Expatriate Women in Kathmandu Labour to Assuage Fear

chapter |22 pages

Travelling Together?

Work, Intimacy, and Home amongst British Expatriate Couples in Dubai

chapter |18 pages

The German School in London, UK

Fostering the Next Generation of National Cosmopolitans?

chapter |22 pages

Moving Experiences

Responses to Relocation among British Military Wives

chapter |24 pages

Making Multiple Migrations

The Life of British Diplomatic Families Overseas

chapter |22 pages

At Work and at Play in the ‘Fishbowl'

Gender Relations and Social Reproduction among Development Expatriates in Madagascar 1

chapter |18 pages

From ‘Incorporated Wives' to ‘Expat Girls'

A New Generation of Expatriate Women?

chapter |22 pages

‘Coming to China Changed My Life'

Gender Roles and Relations among Single British Migrants