Expatriate: Following a Migration Category

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Following the expatriate offers an in-depth exploration of the history and politics of the category expatriate. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, the book tells situated stories about the categorys making, re-making, contestation and lived experience. It traces the expatriates transformation since the mid-20th century era of decolonisation, and locates the changing usage of the expatriate in the context of social, political and economic struggle and explores the material and discursive work the expatriate performs in negotiating social inequalities and power relations. The expatriate emerges as a polysemic and contested, mobile and malleable category whose transformations speak to broader reconfigurations of power and privilege. As the book demonstrates, migration and its categories form a key terrain on which imperial and colonial power relations are reproduced and translated, and offers innovative analytical and methodical strategies to study these processes.

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By focussing on the trajectory of a social category so many of us take for granted, this book offers a creative, critical and provocative engagement with the discursive and postcolonial history of the ways we think about migration more generally. For anyone concerned about the ways migration and mobility have been, and continue to be, governed, imagined and experienced, this book is an essential read.
Tariq Jazeel, University College London

Kunzs delicate, scholarly tapestry of ethnography and Kenyan independence archives reveals how the category expatriate is entangled in the shifting postcolonial power dynamics of migration and the murky politics of oil. A must read for migration scholars.
Caroline Knowles, Queen Mary, University of London

Brilliant, insightful and often surprising, this book leverages the ever changing social category expatriate to explore the intersections of race, colonialism, management and migration. Scholarly work at its best.
Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol

Author Bio

Sarah Kunz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Essex.