ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways corporate expatriates deal with difference in their nonprofessional everyday life and how they negotiate their institutionally shaped privileged position. It considers the everyday spatiality of expatriate managers and their families, that is, how they position themselves within the local space through the selection of their place of residence. The chapter also considers the sociability of expatriate managers and their families. It explores the everyday spatiality and sociability of corporate expatriates using ideal-typical ethnographic cases and works out three types of practiced cosmopolitanisms found in the ethnographic data which are all characterized by inherent contradictions: selective cosmopolitanism, unaccomplished cosmopolitanism and conditional cosmopolitanism. The chapter focuses on the diversity and the inherent contradictions regarding the modes of dealing with cultural difference found in the corporates' expatriates diverse spheres of everyday life.
