ABSTRACT
This chapter explores transnational migration and body size by focusing specifically on British women expatriates in Singapore. It provides new ways of understanding postcolonial encounters within the context of discussions of size by arguing that body size discourses provide a language and means through which people can situate difference and their emotional experiences of migration. The chapter addresses the everydayness of size by focusing on some of the practices and narratives within which British women’s sized identities are constituted, and the implications this has for how they discuss migration. It introduces work on body size and migration. The chapter highlights the ways that body size is bound to racialised and classed constructions of ‘legitimate’ bodies by focusing on expatriate British women’s experiences of migration. It utilises a postcolonial perspective to highlight the ways in which colonial relations are reconfigured, mobilised and narrated by expatriates.
