Journal of Global Mobility
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Breaking out of the expatriate bubble in Denmark: insights from the challenge of making connections with local Danes
Marian van Bakel, Charles M. VanceThe social context of expatriation is crucial for expatriate success, including for building local host country national (HCN) social network support that can facilitate…
Being an “outsider in”: skilled migrants' career strategies in local organizations
Ksenia Usanova, Jelena Zikic, Vlad VaimanAlthough the literature on the careers of skilled migrants is growing, relatively little is known about their experiences inside host country organizations. This article…
Expatriate bubbles in Dubai: expatriates from West and East cohabitating with locals
Henriett PrimeczFocussing on the stratification of expatriates and the boundaries between different types of expatriates and locals, this study investigates the lived experiences and…
The macro-contextual drivers of the international mobility of managers and executives
Arturo Bris, Shlomo Ben-Hur, José Caballero, Marco PistisThe purpose of this paper is to assess the country-level drivers of managers' and executives' mobility. Both sub-groups play a fundamental role in entrepreneurship…
The role of the feedback environment in expatriate adjustment
Brigitte Armon, Lisa Steelman, Sarah JensenThe purpose of the present study is to examine the role of the feedback environment in expatriate adjustment and subsequent performance. Based on newcomer adaptation and…
An examination of the insulation of global worker communities for political reasons: the case of the J-1 Visa in the United States
Jason Ryan, Sari SilvantoThe insulation of globally mobile workers into communities is often influenced by political considerations within the host country. Most studies examining this area have…
A bubble in the making: symbolic boundaries in a Finnish expatriate community
Tuomo Peltonen, Sirkka-Liisa HuhtinenWhile there is anecdotal evidence that internationally mobile workers often form isolated nation-based communities or “expatriate bubbles,” previous academic scholarship…
Strategic international human resource management (SIHRM) framework: an integrated review and directions for future research
Warren Stanley Patrick, Jatinder Kumar Jha, Kumari Gargee SharmaThis study aims to review all frameworks of strategic international human resource management (SIHRM) published between 1990 and 2022 to ascertain their relevance in the…
Identity work in the backstage: exploring the role of expatriate bubbles in identity work of self-initiated expatriate engineers through a Goffmanian lens
Vanda Papafilippou, Christina EfthymiadouWhile there is vast research on expatriate adjustment, it is still known very little on how self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) in particular might cope with identity…
Popping the “bubble” metaphor: separation and integration of expatriate communities
Chengcheng Miao, Hugo Gaggiotti, Chris BrewsterThis paper aims to discuss multiple uses of the concept of “bubble” as a metaphor to refer to different experiences of foreign working communities and suggests a more…
Migrants as “dissonant harmony-seekers” and migrant life in “foam”
Selen Kars-Unluoglu, Burcu Guneri Cangarli, Oznur Yurt, Mehmet GencerMigration of the Turkish new middle-class – high-skilled, well-educated, young professionals – has been growing in recent years. This paper explores their migration…
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2049-8799Online date, start – end:
2013Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Professor Jan Selmer
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