Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations

Working Whiteness

Pauline Leonard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780367602765
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317137979
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations offers a timely and contemporary discussion of the role of organizations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination. It offers a key exploration of the relations between whiteness, identity and organization in migratory contexts. It delves into the experiences of expatriates in Hong Kong and the ways in which new identities are constructed in the destinations of migration by exploring the renegotiation of white identities and racialized relationships, and the extent to which colonial imaginations still inform contemporary organizations. By drawing on existing theoretical and empirical material on post-colonialism, identity-making, privileged migration, relocation, transnational work and organizations, this volume brings disparate discussions together in a new and accessible way. It will appeal to a range of sociology scholars as well as to those working in the fields of migration, gender studies, and cultural geography.

Index

• acculturation activities 66–67
• adventurism 24, 69–71
• Ahmed, S. 45–46
• Allen, T.W. 20
• Ardener, S. 27
• arriving at post 72
• auto-ethnographies 43

• Banzai you Bastards! (Edwards) 43
• Basch, L. 12
• Beaverstock, J.V. 90–91, 118, 120
• belonging, sense of 15–16, 21, 72, 129, 131
• Bhabha, H. 20
• biographies/narratives 40–42, 44–49
• Bonnett, A. 22
• boundaries 15, 38, 81, 91, 132
• Bourdieu, P. 67
• British Empire 24–25

• Callan, H. 27
• capitalism 6, 11, 21, 23
• Castells, M. 116
• Chambers, R. 41
• changes, political/social, in host country
  • adapting to 33, 51, 75, 101
    • resistance to 83, 86, 122
• choices 20, 31, 51, 52, 95
• Chun, A 30
• clothing/dress 28, 79, 91
• clubs 8, 81–83, 105, 118
• Cohen, D. 107, 137
• Coles, A. 78–79, 117
• colonialism 45–46, 134, 137
  • in Hong Kong 50–51
  • legitimizing arguments 24, 32
  • natives, attitudes to 26, 32
  • in South Africa 32–33
  • and whiteness 23, 24–25, 32
  • of work 23–31
• compensation package 67
• Connerton, P. 42
• contextual perspective 19–20
• cosmocrats 8
• creole identities 12, 13, 137
• Cresswell, T. 111
• cult...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Contextualizing Whiteness and Work
• Researching White Identities
• Becoming a White Expatriate
• Organizing Whiteness Through Organizational Practice
• Gender, Work and Expatriate Life
• Expatriate Places and Spaces
• Returning Home
• Bibliography
• Index