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 todays transnational professionals.
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"...This is indeed an important and essential work for those interested in the anthropology of development, and I recommend it highly."
- Frank A. Salamone, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Tables |
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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1 The Shell Ladies' Project: Making And Remaking Home |
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21 | (20) |
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2 Shopping For A Hypernational Home: How Expatriate Women In Kathmandu Labour To Assuage Fear |
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41 | (22) |
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3 Travelling Together? Work, Intimacy, And Home Amongst British Expatriate Couples In Dubai |
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63 | (22) |
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4 The German School In London, UK: Fostering The Next Generation Of National Cosmopolitans? |
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85 | (18) |
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5 Moving Experiences: Responses To Relocation Among British Military Wives |
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103 | (22) |
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6 Making Multiple Migrations: The Life Of British Diplomatic Families Overseas |
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125 | (24) |
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7 Becoming A Feminist In Aidland |
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149 | (22) |
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8 At Work And At Play In The 'Fishbowl': Gender Relations And Social Reproduction Among Development Expatriates In Madagascar |
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171 | (22) |
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9 From 'Incorporated Wives' To `expat Girls': A New Generation Of Expatriate Women? |
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193 | (18) |
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10 'Coming To China Changed My Life': Gender Roles And Relations Among Single British Migrants |
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211 | (22) |
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Contributors |
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Index |
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Anne Coles is a Research Associate at the International Gender Studies Centre in the Department of International Development, Oxford University. She edited, together with Tina Wallace, Gender, Water and Development (2005).
Anne-Meike Fechter is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex. Her publications include Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (2007).