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"We live a life in periods" - Perceptions of mobility and becoming an expat spouse

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  • Julia Büchele

    (Centre for African Studies, Basel, Switzerland)

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Deploying organizations strongly support their employees’ relocation with their spouses and children under the premise that families guarantee a social and practical support system (Kraimer et al. 2016). Expat spouses I have interviewed in the course of my qualitative data collection were sure that their migration experience differed significantly from their employed spouses. While for themselves relocation was a (repeated) interruption of the “normal pace of life”, they assumed that their husbands were provided with a “ready-made life” because they started work right away and were thus integrated in a local social setting. This paper explorse different perceptions of expat spouses' mobility and argues that expat spouses learn to be expat spouses through repeated relocations and "mobility work" ( Mense-Petermann and Spiegel 2016).

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  • Julia Büchele, 2018. ""We live a life in periods" - Perceptions of mobility and becoming an expat spouse," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 15(1), pages 45-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:15:y:2018:i:1:p:45-54
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