Expatriation - Science topic

Using the broaden-and-build theory, this study aimed to analyze the sufficient and necessary conditions that affect retention intention from the perspective of expatriate psychological resilience at an individual level. The study also explored how to enable construction workers to increase their efficiency at facing adversities during assignments a...

Expatriation for work presents several challenges before departure, during expatriation, and on the return to the country of origin that can impact the subjective well-being of these professionals. This study evaluated sociodemographic, labor, cultural distance, and intercultural efficacy variables as possible predictors for Subjective Well-being i...

Expatriate training is a critical component for the success of company internationalization. The necessity of expatriate training becoming the crucial factor for foreign assignment. It is a review article aims to outline the theoretical perspectives of expatriate training, development and also examine how several conceptual frameworks have been imp...

The persistent nature of patriarchal gender norms in Japan is well-known globally despite the nation’s commitment to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, one of which includes gender equality. This paper seeks to introduce and explore the personal narratives of Japanese expatriate women and youth diaspora in the United States to unders...

All globally mobile employees (GMEs) share a common propensity to experience loneliness when they relocate to a new country where they have yet to establish social connections. To better understand how GMEs combat this feeling, we offer a conceptual process model grounded in the conservation of resources (COR) theory to describe how they achieve so...

The signing of Nigerian Local Content Act, 2010 became necessary considering the fact that globally, nations have intensified efforts towards exerting some level of control and participation in the extractive industries. This paper examined the relevance and compliance to provisions of the Act as contained in sections 28-45 by selected multinationa...

p>Burnout, recognized as a psychological syndrome, stems from enduring reactions to emotional and interpersonal obstacles at work. It highlights the tension experienced by individuals within the broader framework of their interactions with their jobs. This phenomenon has attracted considerable attention across diverse professional sectors. With the...

The main purpose of this study is to identify those factors that could potentially enhance the self-esteem of Self-Initiated Expatriate (SIE) educators in Primary and Secondary education in the Sultanate of Oman and the influence of self-esteem on their job satisfaction. In a culturally different environment where people migrate generally to improv...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to explain why and how some expatriate managers engage in misbehavior in host countries, a notoriously elusive phenomenon in the academe. Integrating social cognitive and fraud triangle theories, we conceptualize this phenomenon as an externally driven, cognitive decision‐making process. Specifically,...

Expatriation abroad for work and leisure is becoming the norm these days. This necessitates individuals to adjust to life in their new destination and work environment. This paper focuses on presenting a systematic literature review of how the phenomena of Self-Initiated Academics (SIEs) adjust to their work environment. Method: A systematic litera...

Objectives: Functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) have not been well characterized in the Middle East and North Africa Region. We report the 30 and 90-day clinical outcomes in the native and expatriate of Qatar with ICH. Methods: We evaluated the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), NIHSS, and imaging in the Qatar Stroke Registry...

Many organisations worldwide rely on the contributions of expatriates, who are crucial in filling skill gaps in business operations. However, expatriates face challenges that stem from cultural differences. This paper models the relationship between non-work-related adjustment factors and the expatriates’ commitment. Previous research provides mixe...

The aim of this research is to explore the experience of expatriates about cultural differences between home and host countries through a narrative inquiry. There is not enough information in the literature about expatriates’ experiences and how they see the role of cultural differences, cultural distance and cultural competences in adapting to int...

With the surge in internationalisation of corporations, the number of expatriates in the workforce of organisations across the globe has dramatically increased. Presence of expatriates in the workforce has given rise to unique set of challenges. One of such is the effective management of expatriates' work behaviour in the workplace. Whereas earlier...

Introduction Expatriates are facing more stressors, such as cross-cultural adjustment, global political instability, family separation, health concern. The black swan events of the pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war have posed significant challenges in the current international environment. Adapting to an expatriate environment as soon as possi...

The research deals with the issue of the inability of some industrialists and people with hard professions to fast during the month of Ramadan, and their exposure to severe harm during fasting. Given the harsh nature of their work, especially in the summer, do they have to fast because they are included in the general taxpayers, or do they have a l...

In this study, the main objective is to understand how the international assignment is related to the acquisition and transfer of knowledge. As specific objectives, we intend to understand the international assignments motivations and to explore how the international assignment can impact the employee's career development. Through an exploratory ca...

Trade globalization pushes multinational corporations (MNCs) to conduct business in many geographic regions, and talent flow has emerged as one of the main avenues for building the competitive advantage of international organizations. The job performance of expatriates is crucial for MNCs, which will suffer significant financial losses as a result...

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In policies and research, migrant children tend to be seen as underprivileged and vulnerable. This discourse ignores the more privileged migrant children, those labelled expatriates or third culture kids. Finland wants to attract skilled professionals from abroad. They are often accompanied by their children. Although the families typically intend...

Orientation: Expatriates must adjust to geographical and cultural gap, a change that demands cultural intelligence (CQ). Chinese self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), who have travelled out of their own volition with no institutional support, are in Ghana for investment opportunities due to Ghana’s political stability and the recently discovered oil i...

To understand cultural intelligence’s (CQ) role in expatriates’ work outcomes, we examine the mediation mechanism of psychological availability in the associations between CQ with work engagement and CQ with job satisfaction, along with the moderated mediation effect of job autonomy. We examined data obtained from 546 Taiwanese expatriates. An onli...

Under the trend of global economic integration, there are increasing Chinese expatriate managers. The present research aimed to investigate the effect of expatriate managers’ cultural intelligence (CQ) on communication effectiveness and their job satisfaction in the host country. Nonprobability sampling was applied using convenient sampling techniq...

Self-Initiated Expatriates (SIEs) are individuals who independently choose to move to a foreign country, such as the United States, without seeking help from external sources during the relocation process. A US Self-Initiated Expatriate is an individual who autonomously pursues employment or other opportunities in the United States with the objecti...

Trade globalization pushes multinational corporations (MNCs) to conduct business in many geographic regions, and talent flow has emerged as one of the main avenues for building the competitive advantage of international organizations. The work performance of expatriates is crucial for MNCs, which will suffer significant financial losses due to the...

Objective: The study aims to identify the factors contributing to expatriate success in a Construction Company located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It recognizes the pivotal role expatriate work plays in multinational corporations (MNCs) and the challenges faced by expatriates, such as language and cultural differences. Theoretical Framework:...

Bangladesh is non endemic for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL). Rarely, we come across such cases in workers returning from Middle east particularly Saudi Arabia. Recently we found and managed a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a 37 year old male returning from Saudi Arabia with a lesion behind his left ankle joint. Although Sodium Stibogluconate is...

Drawing upon the “happy-productive worker” hypothesis and the Job Demands-Resources model, we examine whether expatriates’ well-being mediates the association between expatriates’ interaction adjustment and job satisfaction; and whether this indirect effect is moderated by expatriates’ perceived accomplishment of the organizational goals for the as...

The expatriate"s Cross-Cultural Training (CCT) is particularly important because s/he will be posted to a place where the culture is unfamiliar, the job is distinctive and noble, and there is a lot of contact and rigour. On top of that, his spouse will go with him has. As may be observed from a national comparison by Hofstede Insights, there are al...

Background-Applying social learning theory, we propose a relationship of cultural intelligence with the moderation effect of political skills to predict expatriate adjustment. Design/methodology/approach-Three ninety-one participants voluntarily participated in the survey for the data collection from four sectors (banking, telecom, software, and pu...

In recent years, several countries have undertaken political initiatives aimed at reducing immigration. At present, we lack a clear understanding of how self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) living in these countries interpret and respond to such initiatives. The United Kingdom’s 2016 “Brexit” referendum decision to leave the European Union presents an...

This paper explores the experience of immigrant/expatriate game developers ("game expats"), focusing on how the game developers' community influences migration. Inspired by Weststar (2015)'s study identifying the game developers' social group of occupational community (OC), I have conducted semi-structured interviews (n=29) with game expats in Finl...

Expatriate entrepreneurs are exposed to greater risk than ‘local’ entrepreneurs, particularly during exogenous crises. Their psychological characteristics can influence how they view such threats and may inform resultant coping strategies. Reflecting on pre‐entrepreneurship experiences and envisioning life post‐crisis allows identification of 'what...

Current critical matters pertaining to expatriate and global mobility management include the decisions multinational companies (MNCs) must make about assigning someone to an overseas location for a certain period. Aiming to address this sensitive topic, the present article focuses on how job-related resource development dynamics relate with context...

In the interdependent, globalized world, effective leadership tends to navigate many cross-cultural challenges, paving the way for successful completion of international assignments. To add, the pivotal role of leadership in influencing expatriate adjustment and performance serves as the other side of a coin. Considering the leadership and expatria...

Paper for the SSHA Conference in Montréal, 2017. Panel organised by Claire Zalc on Denaturalisation and Expatriation

Work-Life balance is an evolving aspect in global economy. Over the past two decades the issue work-family and work-life balance have received enormous attention from employers and employees mainly in IT industry. There are about 18 million Indian expatriates working in the UK, UAE and the US and the number is projected to increase year by year. Th...

In the current era of globalization in the workplace, employees no longer labor solely within a single nation. Current employees are also able to work abroad, apply for positions abroad, and work for domestic companies with overseas locations. This era of globalization affords us the chance to observe cross-cultural diversity and the development an...

Aim: To investigate the association between job resources, job satisfaction, and moderating effect of COVID-19 anxiety and practice setting among expatriate acute care nurses in Qatar. Background: Expatriate nurses are more vulnerable to reduced job satisfaction. Increased COVID-19 anxiety and reduced perceived job resources among acute care nur...

Using archival oral history interviews with ex-colonial officers from the Scottish Decolonisation Project and the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, this article examines the intimate lives and domestic spaces of white expatriates in Britain's African colonies during the postwar period, often described as the “people's empire.” In doing so...

This article explores the concept of sustainable expatriate management, which incorporates environmental, social, and economic factors, and how it can be implemented in a corporate context. We argue that with increasing societal and environmental issues, it is crucial to revisit the overall global philosophy and policies, including the expatriate l...

There are many factors that entrepreneurs might consider before venturing into business. In the case of Africa, Africa’s expatriates usually consider factors such as control of corruption, peace, stability, and other control indicators are necessary conditions for building one’s confidence in venturing into doing business. Developing and implementi...

The global demand for teachers of English has led to an escalation in the number of non-native English speakers traveling overseas to teach English. Although teaching English abroad is typically associated with native English-speaking teachers hailing from inner-circle countries, it has also become commonplace to see nonnative English-speaking expa...

Objectives To explore relationship among perceived stress regarding loneliness, interpersonal trust and institutional trust of expatriates during the early COVID-19 period (from 30th March to 30th May 2020). Methods Data from 21,439 expatriates were extracted from COVIDiSTRESS global survey. The outcome variable was perceived stress. The explanato...

Unlabelled: In an increasingly urbanized world, understanding the determinants of urban well-being will continue to grow in importance. Although the effects of different indicators of living conditions on well-being have been widely studied individually, little is known about their relative impact when examined jointly. In this study, we use a uni...

Expatriates, or migrant workers, are employees who work outside their home country and reside in a foreign country for the purpose of work. They are often subject to job fraud, employment contract violations, and poor working conditions. These calamities are mainly due to language barriers, limited legal protection, and feeling inferior in their ho...

This study examined the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Japanese expatriates living in China. The survey period was from March 30 to July 31, 2021; responses were received via an online survey. An online survey gathered responses from 236 participants about the impact of COVID-19 on their work and life. While 80% of the participant...

In the industry world, a successful business is highly dependent on effective globalization (Toomey, 1999:4). And effective globalization is linked with diverse workforce, workers who come from diverse cultural backgrounds. This opens up many opportunities, especially for high-skilled immigrants or expatriates, but at the same time it also provides...

Organizations have advanced their traditional human resources management activities to develop better human resources. Expatriates' compensation is important as individuals, companies and policymakers are interested in the cost of living across big cities. Multinational companies should recognize the importance of expatriate's compensation in consi...

Thousands of Southern Sudanese refugees fled southward into the Orientale province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 1960s. This article examines the challenges posed by fragmentary archival sources from humanitarian organisations, and a small number of interviews, for understanding the actions of Sudanese refugees as they entered a p...

Expatriate success is the result of a hard struggle in achieving it. This is because expatriate entering the work environment, culture, different languages with the environment in the country of origin. These differences lead to culture shock. This study uses in-depth interviews and literature studies. The research results are expatriates experienc...

With globalization and its vision of being a developed country, Malaysia has seen an influx of expatriates into the country to meet its need for a skilled and professional workforce. This paper reports a survey conducted among a Malaysian expatriate group. The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges faced by expatriates and to coordinate...

The current empirical study observes the impact of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Cross-Cultural Adjustment (CCA) on Job Performance (JP) particularly Task Performance (TP) and Contextual Performance (CP) of Self-Initiated Expatriates (SIE) located in Central-Eastern Europe countries. The PLS SEM technique was implemented to analyze the data from...

The arena of education known as 'international schooling' has grown enormously, from a body of 2,500 schools in 2000 to almost 13,500 by 2022. By 2019, China had emerged as having the most schools delivering a non-national curriculum in English outside of an English-speaking nation. The arena continues to be dominated by British and North American...

Consumers' attitudes and preferences in developing countries differ from those in developed countries. The research compared the motivation to use ride-hailing in developing and developed countries to understand consumers better. The research applied a qualitative survey with 52 drivers, followed by a quantitative survey with 741 passengers. It was...

Home – No Home reflects through expanded photographic artworks and elucidate – through heuristic introspection, auto-ethnography, and critical text analysis – notions of expatriation and social integration, such as home, (Blunt & Dowling 2006; Blunt et al., 2007) home displacement and attachment, nostalgia (Vidler, 1992; Koerner, 2017) and homesick...

This study was conducted to investigate the contribution of age, working experience, length of time spent overseas, and managerial competence to determine Sri Lankan Expatriates’ adjustment in international assignments. At the same time, this research was intended to measure the degree to which international adjustment of the Sri Lankan Expatriates...

Poor social support is a known risk factor in the development of postpartum depression. Expatriate women may be at increased risk of experiencing lower levels of social support due to cultural and language barriers. Currently, research examining postpartum depression and levels of social support in expatriate women is sparse. The aim of this prelim...

Background Population size and structure have a huge impact on health indicators. In countries with a high proportion of expatriates, there are some limitations in estimating, aggregating and reporting of the health indicators, and corrections may be required in the established estimation methodologies. We review the case of Qatar to see how its sp...

The social capital that employees form on international assignments can have important implications for organizational outcomes. However, despite valuable prior research efforts, how and under which conditions international employees’ social capital is formed and translated into benefits for individuals and organizations remains unclear. To address...

The globally mobile workforce of international professionals has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Closed borders and entry restrictions for foreign residents have left many expatriates separated from partners and family members. Previously held assumptions about the ability to travel whenever needed have been severely challenge...

This research is motivated by several problems faced by foreigners in applying for Indonesian citizenship. The purpose of this study is to find out how big the opportunity for expatriates to get Indonesian Citizenship status is and to find out what impacts are felt by the expatriates themselves and the surrounding community. The benefit of the resu...

This chapter explores the spillover effects of transnational mobility on professional and private life spheres, paying particular attention to the gender dynamics of vulnerability. From an interdisciplinary perspective, our aim is to explore the vulnerabilities associated with various forms of geographical mobility in societies (see Forbes-Mewett,...

Career opportunities for U.S.-educated student affairs professionals to work outside of the U.S. in student affairs have become increasingly available over the past two decades. The purpose of this study was to determine demographics of U.S.-educated expatriate student affairs professionals and their motivations to work abroad, which remains a uniq...

The rapid increase in globalization has changed the social dynamics of many countries around the world. This has especially been the case for the Republic of Korea. In this qualitative case study, the particular challenges of Anglophone expatriate male spouses married to Korean women are explored. Utilizing questionnaires, narrative frames, semi-st...

Plot-motif treatment is one of reasonable in classification of expatriate song. It allows to distinguish prevail plot motif in the certain subgroup of corresponding folklore works. Investigating the song folklore by Crimean Tatars, we can rather clearly divide it by such principle. It is possible to determine the songs, where such motifs are domina...

Job satisfaction is one of the vital needs of almost every employee in any well-structured organization. Any shortfall in the anticipated level of employee job satisfaction would affect the employees' contribution to organizational effectiveness. The purpose of the research is twofold. It aims to study the relationship between different levels of e...

Purposive movement of people in a global era that sense may term international migration where the interaction of global and local networks takes place in various forms. The globalizing economy is one of the prime forces behind migration where the traditional push and pull factors have been amplified as “glocal” interaction. Conversely, the term gl...

Self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) are classified as highly qualified specialists who can independently find employment overseas. However, little is known on how this cohort became resilient to cope with high uncertainty and adjust to novel international contexts. This chapter presents the most dominant resilience factors impacting the development o...

In our opinion, the scholarly and general ways of perceiving the emigrants from the Czech lands are based on methodological nationalism, which identifies the concept of society with the modern national state. Based on this, Bohemian resettlers who founded several settlements on the southern border of the Habsburg Empire in present-day Romanian Bana...

In recent times, the preference for expatriates in the contractual process in Nigeria has become an issue of controversy and general public interest. As a result, the high presence of these foreign expatriates has raised competitiveness in the construction sector, which is partly caused by indigenous enterprises' incapacity to meet the demands plac...

The article presents partial results from an online survey conducted with a group of expatriates living and working in Poland. The main aim of the study was to examine the attitude of the target group towards learning Polish, and to find the most important motivations for learning it or the reasons for not doing so. This problem has not been thorou...

Cultural diversity in the 21st century makes it imperative for managers to examine the multidimensional construct of cultural intelligence, aiming to solve cross-cultural problems, mitigate culture shock and promote a harmonious work environment. Using the quota sampling technique, this quantitative paper gathered data from three subgroups in Bangk...

In this paper, the term “EMex” is coined to refer to emerging market expatriates who had to adjust to working and living in Japan during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Social Identity Theory is applied together with the Grounded Theory to develop a more nuanced picture of how EMex coped with the adjustment process. We found that EMex were confronted wi...

The article examines The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , by Gertrude Stein. Filtered through the eyes of her lover, the text’s focus is on Stein’s artistic growth. Published in 1933 and written from “the happily distant perspective of the 1930s” (Benstock, 1986, p. 144), The Autobiography shows how Stein copes with the isolation and despair of h...

This paper presents a research study conducted in the Ban Soi Sukhon neighbourhood in Bangkok. The study relied on archival research, longitudinal observation, and participation in the everyday life of the neighbourhood. It examined how the lack of a comprehensive master plan and planning controls triggered private land development patterns charact...

Purpose The motivation for the current exploration follows from the fact that one-third of the population in Saudi Arabia (SA) is expatriates. According to the Saudi General Authority for Statistic (https://www.stats.gov.sa/en), the total population in SA in 2021 is estimated at 33,413,660 people, 20,768,627 of whom are Saudi citizens whereas 12,64...

Purpose: In the study of expatriation, there has been less emphasis on the study of self-initiated expatriation as compared to organizational expatriation. Since people in the academia profession are amongst the most mobile and have greater opportunity to choose their employment destination, this paper explores the motivations and experiences of a...

Purpose: In the field of construction, it has been shown that individuals with higher emotional intelligence may perform better on the job. However, it is still a question worth exploring about how emotional intelligence affects expatriate performance in international construction projects. Therefore, this study aimed to verify the relationship be...

Background: This study investigated the psychological empowerment (PE) of nurses in pediatric units and examined the significant difference between the level of PE and the personal work profiles of nurses working in pediatric units in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A quantitative descriptive study design was employed between May and July 2020 using a self-...

Abstract: The study aims to explore the relationship between cultural intelligence and depression, and the role of expatriation as a moderator variable between them. The study also tries to detect the differences among expatriate and non-expatriate students in both cultural intelligence and its dimensions and depression along with verifying the rel...

An expatriate is somebody who leaves their native country and lives in other country. Expatriation presents descriptions of multiculturalism and marginalization. Mistry's is an Indian Born Canadian writer. Being a Parsi Diaspora writer, double displacement imbibed with him. His novels deal with the problems of Parsis in their own life and also depi...

Amid a growing interest in how geographical location functions as a motive for self-initiated expatriate (SIE) academics to choose their next employer, more research is needed to understand how academics select a potential location for their expatriation. With the goal of contributing to the literature on SIE academics, this study explores the cues...

Academic staffs migrate from one institution to another, some within the same country while some academics migrate to foreign institutions. Academic migration to foreign institutions entails greater challenges due to various factors including different national policies, language and cultural adaptations. Based on the theoretical concept of "person...

Institutional differences between countries influence strategic choices and performance of international businesses, but the unintended effects of legal institutions on firm legitimacy have received less attention. We argue that, while minority shareholder rights protection in an investment location does not directly protect shareholder interests a...