When "expatriation" is a matter of family. Opportunities, barriers and intimacies in international mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Cangià ◽  
Tania Zittoun
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Empirical Implications

This special issue aims at understanding “expatriate” mobility with a special focus on the role of family and intimacy, and brings together different case-studies, built through different theoretical perspectives. These allow approaching “expatriate” mobile families along two main lines: as part of the making of life trajectories, and as these are shaped by, and are shaping, professional trajectories. This editorial highlights the contributions of the various articles, before addressing a series of emerging issues. Among these, it questions the very notion of “expatriate” in the light of family life, shows the evolution of families in repeated mobility, and brings to the fore the importance of temporality and timing in these family lives, as well as that of reflexivity in mobility. As a whole, the various contributions of this special issue complement each other in illustrating the complexities of expatriates’ migration and family life in times of increasing global mobility, but also, they raise theoretical discussions, point to possible empirical implications, and suggest avenues for further investigations. 

scholarly journals Editorial: Role of knowledge and learning systems in fostering work-life balance

2016 ◽  
pp. 213-215
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Work And Life

The ability of employees to effectively recognize, practice, and apply knowledge management (KM) and learning system principles accessible to them is a vital issue in improving work-life balance and providing strategies to enhance it. This issue has become obvious in efforts to apply information technology in the development of work-life balance policies through various learning systems. The victory and letdown of KM and work-life balance initiatives certainly depend on the deliberation of how these elements can be effectively designed and deployed to the general public in various industries. Work-life balance has become an imperative area of research that analyzes how these elements can be understood and applied to improve the aspects involved in one’s work and life. Such concept has also significantly emerged in recent years. In this special issue, several papers that focus on the budding concept of KM and work-life balance are presented. These articles particularly look into the theoretical and methodological approaches for studying work-life balance. A special focus of the issue is how these notions are practiced and can be personalized to improve work-life balance through KM and learning systems.

scholarly journals Closing Perspective on the Special Issue on JUUL

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-613
Author(s):  
Karl O. Fagerström
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Never Smokers ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Regulatory Challenge

Objective: This article provides an overview of this theme issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior dedicated to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), with a special focus on JUUL. Methods: The author summarizes key findings from included papers and offers an evaluative perspective on ENDS as tools for smoking cessation versus the prospect of their appeal to previous non-smokers. Results: Delineation of certain metrics (eg, defining who is a smoker) and clarification about an acceptable level of unintended consequences weighed against harm reduction confound conclusions about the public health role of ENDS/JUUL. Conclusion: Until agreement on key definitions and performance of well-controlled studies, a system that promotes ENDS/JUUL use among smokers but discourages their use by never-smokers is a regulatory challenge.

scholarly journals Theorizing Mobility Transitions

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Temenos ◽  
Anna Nikolaeva ◽  
Tim Schwanen ◽  
Tim Cresswell ◽  
Frans Sengers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Theories Of Practice ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Transition Studies

Despite a surge of multidisciplinary interest in transition studies on low-carbon mobilities, there has been little evaluation of the current state of the field, and the contributions of different approaches such as the multi-level perspective (MLP), theories of practice, or the new mobilities paradigm. As a step in this direction, this contribution brings together scholars representing different theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields in order to discuss processes and uneven geographies of mobility transitions as they are currently theorized. First, we reflect upon the role of geographers and other social scientists in envisioning, enabling, and criticizing mobility transitions. Second, we discuss how different theoretical approaches can develop mobility transitions scholarship. Finally, we highlight emerging issues in mobility transitions research.

scholarly journals Rural Aspirations: Reflections for Development Planning, Design and Localized Effects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Mausch ◽  
Dave Harris ◽  
Javier Revilla Diez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Development Trajectories

AbstractIn this editorial introduction to the Special Issue “Rural aspirations—Livelihood decisions and rural development trajectories”, we outline current views on aspirations and their relevance for development research, projects and approaches. Using several examples from Africa, we outline how the combination of the different theoretical perspectives, case studies and regional backgrounds provides deeper insights about the role of aspirations in shaping rural areas. The distinct entry points of the ‘bottom up’ local aspirations for future lives, the ‘top down’ aspirations as visions for change, and the process of negotiating between these provide novel insights into directions for development action as well as for future research in the field of aspirations in the development arena.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on “Family migration processes in a comparative perspective”

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 247-263
Author(s):  
Can M. Aybek ◽  
Nadja Milewski
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Multigenerational Families ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Individual

This paper provides an introduction to this Special Issue on “Family migration processes in a comparative perspective”. Following an introduction to the topic, we provide summaries of the papers in this Special Issue and discuss afterwards some overarching theoretical perspectives. This Special Issue contains papers that explore how family lives and intimate relationships are constituted and re-constituted under conditions of transnationality. The authors of the contributing papers, although they have followed very different theoretical and methodological paths, underscore the effect of conducting and facilitating family life and couple relationships during or after an international migration process. They show that the couples and multigenerational families in transnational contexts are constantly undergoing processes of constitution, negotiation, and reconstitution. We conclude that future research should shift from focusing solely on the individual to examining couples and families, and it should adopt dynamic, rather than static perspectives when studying family migration.

A study of the impact of business education on global career mobility

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Silvanto ◽  
Jason Ryan ◽  
Vipin Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mba Graduates

Purpose This paper aims to develop a clearer understanding of the role of business education and business schools in fostering global mobility. As business schools seek to educate managers who can work globally and adjust to new business and cultural environments, it is important to assess which specific dimensions of business education, such as the location of the school and its curriculum, play a significant role in fostering greater global mobility among business graduates. This also helps how business schools potentially influence global talent flows. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an empirical research methodology in the form of a multivariate analysis to examine a sample of 91 business schools that are accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the 2015 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking. Findings This study finds that international mobility of MBA graduates is mediated both by the design of the curriculum and the location of the business school. MBA graduates from leading business schools that offer greater levels of international experiential learning are more likely to pursue overseas careers after graduation. MBA graduates from leading business schools that are located in economically globalized locations, by contrast, are often more likely to remain in the country where they studied after graduation to pursue local employment opportunities. Originality/value This paper contributes to the knowledge of how business education influences the international mobility of business graduates and how it influences global talent flows.

FAITH–BASED COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS IN DULLSTROOM-EMNOTWENI: LOCAL STORIES OF IDENTITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
The Face

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called ‘Mapoch Gronden’, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the ‘Mapoggers’ settled in the newly built ‘township’ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe – a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni – testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

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