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Alzoubi, Mamoun. "Richard Wright's Trans-Nationalism: New Dimensions to to Modern American Expatriate Literature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1466409579.

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Williams, Angela Marsha. "The French Expatriate Assignment: Helping Accompanying Spouses to Adapt by Assuming the Role of Anthropologist." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd598.pdf.

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Cruz, Christine S. "Use of technologies for American expatriate training." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1542256.

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This study examined the use of technology-based training and development within expatriate populations after the 2008 global recession. A quantitative survey design was used to collect data. The study results were shared with a live, face-to-face group forum of training and development practitioners. A total of 46 participants answered the survey. Findings related to participant demographic data as well as their perceptions regarding the impacts of the 2008 recession, training timing and topics, and training methods were reported. The study findings indicated that the 2008 global recession did not have a strong impact on these participants. They also tended to receive training after they arrived onsite. Technology-based training was not viewed as highly effective by expatriates. Rather, it is traditional instructor-led classroom training that best prepared American expatriates for their work assignment abroad, second to blended learning of classroom and technology training.

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Staveley, Ryan Texas. "American Expatriate Retention Factors in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, Baker College (Michigan), 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13427162.

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International assignment experiences assist personnel over time by helping them acquire new business skill sets, global perspectives, and essential intermediate- and advanced-level cross-cultural competencies, which collectively benefit all stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of organizational culture, compensation practices, and job designations during the American expatriate’s career process to maximize retention rates within the Saudi nonacademic local-clientele training sector. The cultural dimensions theory, the model for expatriate selection, and the model for expatriate training framed this study. A qualitative multiple-case research methodology featured a 10-question survey and a 10-question interview with 15 American expatriates representing 11 Saudi organizations. Themes were developed for each research question. Findings for less experienced expatriates showed more career development opportunities and leadership from experienced section managers were needed. Findings for more experienced expatriates showed more active employment policy adaptations were needed. The findings of this study suggested retention is impacted significantly when American expatriates are valued, encouraged to grow career prospects, and inspired to recruit additional personnel to accept foreign mission assignments. A ten-phase career process (TPCP) was developed to identify the exact phase expatriates considered departure. The results of this research will assist organizational decision makers and support level personnel in understanding the most urgent requirements and provide insight into techniques to properly support expatriates most efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Curtis, Kathryn. "Mental health services and American expatriates." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/670.

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Zirner, Ulrike C. "Overseas effectiveness of American expatriates in Germany." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06302009-040439/.

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Tang, Qi. "Foreigners' archive contemporary China in the blogs of American expatriates /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1225464916.

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Hibbard, Allen E. "Writing differently somewhere else : studies in the American expatriate novel /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9333.

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Sugawara, Yosei. "Silence and avoidance: Japanese expatriate adjustment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/682.

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Rifiorati, Elena <1993&gt. "Venetian Soundscapes: An Aural Investigation of the Lagoon City in the Writings of American and British Expatriates." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13538.

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Petalidou, Maria. "Go not with fanatics : modernist activities and artistic itineraries in the life and work of Natalie Barney, Djuna Barnes, and Romaine Brooks." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326082.

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Turner, Deborah Ann. "Assessing the intercultural sensitivity of American expatriates in Kuwait." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4288.

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The purpose of this study is to apply a developmental model of intercultural sensitivity to a group of people in an intercultural setting and discover whether or not the model is descriptive. The data collected are also used to determine whether or not the coping mechanisms employed by the sojourners are developmental in terms of this model of intercultural sensitivity.

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Weik, Alexa. "Beyond the nation American expatriate writers and the process of cosmopolitanism /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307132.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 8, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-368).

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Cross, Rhonda Kay Baxter Denise Amy. "Walter MacEwen a forgotten episode in American art /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9854.

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Tuffnell, Stephen D. "Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and empire in Britain's American expatriate community, c.1815-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f516d40c-bc6a-4405-a946-6b9d09a77546.

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This study examines the coalescence of American expatriate communities in Britain between 1815 and 1914. Blending transnational and post-colonial approaches to US history, this dissertation explores the nuanced roles of Americans in Britain as intermediaries in the consolidation of US independence, the formation of American nationalism, and the emergence of American empire. Transatlantic economic and cultural connections converged in American communities in Britain. The American communities of London and Liverpool evolved and dissolved around these rapidly transforming interconnections. These communities are recaptured in this study from scattered archives on both side of the Atlantic. The Antebellum American community acted as a conduit between British capital and American nation-building projects and promoted transatlantic rapprochement as the route to effective US independence. The importation of American innovation and manufactured goods into Britain and the Empire, however, followed late nineteenth-century expatriates. As US power surged, Americans in London created a self-identifying American “colony,” which acted as the interface between US economic and cultural expansion and British imperialism. Throughout the century, Britain’s American communities acted as crucibles in which sectional, national, and racial identifications were contested and reconstructed. Expatriate newspapers, celebrations, and social institutions, provided the venues for Americans in Britain to articulate and reformulate American nationalism. In the context of British power, the contestations and reformulations of these identities were bled through with post- and anti-colonial anxieties. Expatriates therefore acted as avatars for sharpening distinctions between the US and Britain in debates over the form of American national character, culture, and empire – and Britain’s role in all three. This study reframes these themes around the previously overlooked communities of Americans in Britain. From these communities, which stand at the intersection of US and British Imperial history, a new perspective emerges on the reciprocal dynamics of nationhood and empire in nineteenth century Anglo-American relations.

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Cross, Rhonda Kay. "Walter MacEwen: A forgotten episode in American art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9854/.

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Despite having produced an impressive body of work and having been well-received in his lifetime, the career of nineteenth-century American expatriate artist Walter MacEwen has received virtually no scholarly attention. Assimilating primary-source materials, this thesis provides the first serious examination of MacEwen's life and career, thereby providing insight into a forgotten episode in American art.

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Ross, Larry. "Jazz musicians in the diaspora /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946292.

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Teixeira, Valadares de Oliveira Luiza. "Expatriate Adjustment in Brazil: A Cross-Cultural Analysis." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366842311.

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Yedgarian, Vahick A. "A Causal Comparative Study of American Expatriate Adjustment in Russia and Job-Specific Attributes." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10125293.

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Expatriates of U.S.-based MNCs (Americans) on overseas assignment face unique adjustment and job-performance issues that have affected employer operations, resulting in financial loss and low morale. The specific problem was the poor adjustment of Americans in Russia, due to type of job, type of position, and prior-international experience. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to examine whether differences existed in the process of adjustment of Americans in Russia based on job-specific attributes. The quantitative study featured a causal-comparative design. The sampling frame included the estimated 4,000 Americans working for US-based MNCs, members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (ACCR). ACCR’s membership-list was used to gather a simple random sample of 197 through an anonymous online survey, a pre-validated 5-point Likert scale based on the Peltokorpi-Cultural Adjustment (2008) scale. Results for a one-way ANOVA showed no significant difference for employee adjustment based on type of job or position, and a significant difference was found for prior-international experience (p<.05). Recommendations for practice included (a) encouragement of U.S.-based MNCs that do business in Russia to incorporate the finding of this study, and (b) for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to create programs to assist member firms to develop a knowledge base and recruitment practices for better adjustment of Americans in Russia. Recommendations for future research included (a) a causal-comparative study to evaluate pre-assignment training as a moderating factor to explain differences in adjustment for employees with different types of job and positions, and (b) a quasi-experimental study to further assess interactions among the current study variables as to the influence on Americans' adjustment.

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Zhao, Li. "Socio-Cultural Adjustment of International Students as Expatriates in America." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/228.

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This study examined the relationships between international students’ ethnic identity, self-efficacy, uncertainty avoidance, and their socio-cultural adjustment. A total of 65 international students (aged 18 to 33 years) from seven countries completed the online questionnaire. As hypothesized, path analyses demonstrated a positive relationship between students’ self-efficacy and their socio-cultural adjustment. International students’ uncertainty avoidance had a negative relationship with their self-efficacy, but a positive relationship with ethnic identity. The hypotheses that international students’ ethnic identity and uncertainty avoidance are negatively correlated to their socio-cultural adjustment were not supported in the present study.

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Oprava, David E. "Once America : 50 expats, 50 interviews, 50 poems." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678534.

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Gill, Patrick W. "The Expatriate Experience, Self Construction, and the Flâneur in William Carlos Williams’ A Voyage to Pagany." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182745707.

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Grace, Juanita Connor 1917. "THE INCIDENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN AMERICAN WIVES OF EXPATRIATE CORPORATE EXECUTIVES (STRESS, COPING, SEXUALITY)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276370.

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Qabaha, Ahmad. "Expatriation versus exile : departures and returns in modern American expatriate narratives and post-1948 exilic Palestinian writing." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/82350/.

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This thesis offers a sustained and nuanced examination of representations of expatriation and exile in modern American expatriate narratives and post-1948 exilic Palestinian writing. In so doing, this thesis addresses and develops an under elaborated conversation in comparative, postcolonial and diaspora studies. It accounts for the distinction between the departures and returns of the involuntary exile and the expatriate or self-imposed exile. In Chapter One, I analyse memoirs by Fawaz Turki (1941–) and Malcolm Cowley (1898– 1989) in order to illustrate that the departure of exiled Palestinian writers from their homeland is imposed by a colonial situation, while the departure of Modernist American expatriate authors to Europe is elective. In Chapter Two, I juxtapose works by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919–1994) to show that American expatriate characters are engaged in centrifugal movement that increases their sense of freedom, while exiled Palestinian characters are involved in a centripetal mobility that expresses their desire to return home. In Chapter Three, I examine memoirs by Edward Said (1935–2003) and Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) to show that Said uses his ‘voyage in’ to the Palestinian context to enter into the Palestinian national narrative, while Stein performs ‘a displaced and dialectical encounter’ with the US to cultivate a distinctive personal identity and narrative. In Chapter Four, I explore a range of exilic Palestinian and modern American expatriate works to suggest that the differences between the representations of ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ by the authors at stake echo the various forms of departures and returns they represent. The overarching aim of this thesis is to foreground the different modes of placelessness represented by exiled and expatriate characters and their authors. It contends that the possibility of American expatriate protagonists of reconnecting with their roots enables them to choose the routes they desire to follow afterwards, which reflects an elective exile. By contrast, the representation by their Palestinian counterparts of their inability to access their roots and choose their routes reflects an involuntary exile. This thesis therefore urges comparative, postcolonial and diaspora studies to stress the differences between expatriation and exile, and it opens up new possibilities for further comparative examinations of literatures of exile and expatriation. This thesis also paves the way for further research on potential connections between Palestinian and American writing.

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Kohtala, M. (Minne). "The relationship of the five-factor model of personality to expatriate adjustment in Latin America." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201709062849.

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This research investigates the relationship between personality and expatriate adjustment in case of Finnish expatriates in Latin America. It combines theories of expatriate adjustment (Black 1988, Black & Stephens 1989, Black & Gregersen 1991), personality (McCrae & Costa 1992, Johnson 2000 & 2014), culture (Hofstede et al. 2010) and contingency theory (Scott 1988). The research is qualitative in nature. A subject group consists on 112 Finnish responders who attempted to exchange or volunteer work program in Latin America during past 5 years. The relationship of personality to adjustment was examined in two manners which are linear relationship and relationship between the classes of the personality traits (low, average, high). The data was analyzed by using statistical tools (correlation matrix, regression analysis, comparison between the groups). The results showed that there is no linear relationship between the adjustment and personality traits, but the relationship between the classes of the personality traits and adjustment was found. Average and high extraversion and low and average neuroticism increased adjustment. In addition, high agreeableness, low and average conscientiousness and average and high openness to experience were beneficial to adjustment in Latin America. The main assumption of this research is the importance of an environment. Therefore, the main purpose was not to give straights responses but to offer tools for decision making. The research gives information about how to analyze and compare national cultures and the most importantly, how to use personality test results in hiring decisions. The traditional way to analyze personality’s connection to adjustment (linear relationship) was challenged and the empirical findings proved that it might be more purposeful to analyze the personality test results as classes. An interesting message for managers is that there is no need to maximize or minimize the valued and unvalued personality traits. The highest or lowest possible score does not always be the most beneficial, but the average level might be enough in order to increase adjustment.

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Braasch, Steffen. "Expatriates in India: culture-specific leadership and its potential : a theoretical concept of adaptions & leadership, and the experience of 85 expatriates in American and German companies in Bombay and Delhi /." Bamberg, 1999. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00002171.pdf.

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Turner, William Blackmore. "Pulping the Black Atlantic : race, genre and commodification in the detective fiction of Chester Himes." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/pulping-the-black-atlanticrace-genre-and-commodification-in-the-detective-fiction-of-chester-himes(5d2272b6-f9e7-437e-be67-82bebc96abdb).html.

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The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early 1950s, Himes emigrated to Paris, where he would go on to publish eight Harlem-set detective novels (1957-1969) for Gallimard's La Série Noire. Himes's 'black' noir fiction brought him critical and commercial success amongst a white European readership, and would later gain a cult status amongst an African American readership in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Himes's post-'protest' career has been variously characterised as a commercialist 'selling out'; an embracing of black 'folk' populism; and an encounter with Black Atlantic modernism. This thesis analyses the Harlem Cycle novels in relation to Himes's career, and wider debates regarding postwar African American literature and race relations.Fundamentally, I argue that a move into commercial formula fiction did not curtail Himes's critical interest in issues of power, exploitation, and racial inequality. Rather, it refocused his literary 'protest' to representational politics itself, and popular culture's ability to inscribe racial identity, resistance and exploitation. On the one hand, Himes's Harlem fiction meets a formulaic and commercial demand for images of 'pathological' black urban criminality. However, Himes, operating 'behind enemy lines', uses the texts to dramatise this very dynamic. Himes's pulp novels depict a heightened Harlem that is thematically 'pulped' by a logic of capitalist exploitation, and a fetishistic dominant of racial difference. In doing so, Himes's formula fiction makes visible certain anti-progressive shifts in the analysis and representation of postwar race relations. My methodology mirrors the multiple operations of the texts, placing Himes's detective fiction in relation to a diverse and interdisciplinary range of sources: literary, historical, and theoretical. Using archival material, I look in detail at Himes's public image and contemporary reception as a Série Noire writer, his professional correspondence with French and U.S. literary agents, and his private thoughts and later reflections regarding his career. This methodology attempts to get to grips with a literary triangulation between Himes's progressive authorial intentions, the demands placed upon him as a Série Noire writer, and the wider ideological shifts of the postwar era. By exploring these different historical, geographical and literary contexts, this thesis offers a wide-reaching analysis of how cultural and racial meanings are produced and negotiated within a commodity form.

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Machado, Michel Mott. "Caminhos da adaptação intercultural na expatriação: uma cartografia simbólica da dignidade de latino-americanos no Brasil." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2015. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/827.

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The study of dignity is present in many fields of Life Sciences, the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Management field, in particular, researches have been carried out mainly through the perspective of dignity in organizations and, more recently, from a stakeholder‟s point-of-view. The purpose of this study was to understand how the dignity from the cultural experience of Latin American expatriates in Brazil, was projected and symbolized by them. The decision to take the expatriation as one of the central elements of the study, due to the profound changes from the process of productive restructuring, since the late twentieth century, implying mobility of capital and people in different parts of the globe. Despite the signs of a growing trend of intra-regional migration process in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean, most of the researches involving the expatriation phenomenon still show little emphasis on the reality of Latin American countries. It is assumed here that the cultural adjustment of expatriate suppose to leave suspended their own cultural base, producing vulnerability in relationships, and therefore promoting violation of dignity. In this qualitative research, interviews in-depth were conducted, face to face, with ten expatriate executives from four different South American countries, who lived in Brazil when the interviews were made. From a de-colonial approach, was adopted as data analysis method the symbolic cartography as proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. From the point of view of projection and symbolization, the omission and neglect in management, fed the projection of the Latin American expatriate dignity to the periphery in the researched companies, in this case, prevailed the figure of Ares over Athena in the sphere of organization. In this sense, is desirable the development of a critical reflection about the expatriation process and interculturalism in native organizations, from top management. The prevalence of absences on emergencies / "presence" hindered the process of intercultural adaptation, as the continuing violations of dignity resulted in disqualification of other Latin Americans.
O estudo da dignidade está presente em vários campos das Ciências da Vida, das Ciências Humanas e das Ciências Sociais Aplicadas. No campo da Administração, em particular, pesquisas vem sendo realizadas, principalmente, por meio da perspectiva da dignidade nas organizações, bem como, mais recentemente, a partir de uma visão baseada em stakeholders. O objetivo deste estudo foi o de compreender como a dignidade, a partir da vivência cultural dos expatriados latino-americanos no Brasil, foi projetada e simbolizada pelos mesmos. A decisão de tomarmos a expatriação como um dos elementos centrais do estudo deveu-se às profundas transformações oriundas do processo de reestruturação produtiva, desde o final do século XX, o que acarretou implicações à mobilidade de capital e de pessoas em diferentes partes do globo. Apesar da sinalização de uma tendência de crescimento do processo migratório intra-regional no contexto da América Latina e Caribe, a maior parte das pesquisas que envolvem o fenômeno da expatriação ainda demonstram pouca ênfase sobre a realidade de países latino-americanos. Assume-se aqui que a adaptação cultural do expatriado pressupõe deixar em suspensão a sua base cultural própria, o que é uma perspectiva geradora de vulnerabilidade nas relações, e portanto, de violação da dignidade. Nesta pesquisa qualitativa, foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade, face a face, com dez executivos expatriados de quatro diferentes países sul-americanos, que moravam no Brasil quando da realização das entrevistas. Desde uma perspectiva descolonial, adotou-se como método de análise de dados a cartografia simbólica conforme proposta por Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Do ponto de vista da projeção e da simbolização, a omissão e o descaso na gestão alimentaram o processo de periferização da dignidade do expatriado latino-americano nas empresas pesquisadas, prevalecendo assim, a figura de Ares sobre Atena na esfera da organização. Nesta direção, pode-se dizer que enseja-se o desenvolvimento de uma reflexão crítica acerca do processo de expatriação e da interculturalidade nas organizações

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Lineberry, Matthew. "Expatriates' Acculturation Strategies: Going Beyond "How Adjusted Are You?" To "How Do You Adjust?"." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4128.

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Expatriates' degree of adjustment to living and working in a foreign country is well-accepted as an important outcome variable in expatriate management research. However, measures of degree of adjustment do not capture the breadth of strategies expatriates may use to achieve such adjustment, which may be critical for understanding whether expatriates have achieved a healthy and productive orientation to life abroad. Borrowing from research on immigrant populations, this study examines the construct of expatriate acculturation strategies, which characterize expatriates' mode of adjustment along two independent dimensions reflecting maintenance of one's home culture and engagement of the host culture, respectively. One hundred U.S. expatriates were recruited and completed an index of acculturation strategies. In addition, participants completed survey and reaction-time based measures of proposed antecedents, correlates, and outcomes of varying acculturation strategies. Results suggest that expatriates largely pursue either a maintenance-focused or engagement-focused strategy and that acculturation strategies are not redundant with degree of adjustment. Relationships between acculturation strategies and relevant individual differences, characteristics of expatriate positions, and outcomes are discussed.

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Foulds, Abigail. "BUYING A COLONIAL DREAM: THE ROLE OF LIFESTYLE MIGRANTS IN THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE HISTORIC CENTER OF GRANADA, NICARAGUA." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/18.

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This dissertation aims to expand our understanding of how lifestyle migrants from the Global North impact the urban space of a Global South city, particularly the built environment. In order to situate the questions posed in this dissertation, I focus on how lifestyle migrants from the Global North and their foreign capital transform the city of Granada, Nicaragua through processes of gentrification, and how the social and economic climate of the city and its residents are impacted. This research allows for empirically informed theoretical critiques to be made about the economic and social implications of the globalization of gentrification resulting from heterogeneous lifestyle migration. The property markets in many Global North locations, most notably the US, have pushed lifestyle migrants to look abroad; gentrification has gone international, spreading to the Global South. For reasons such as affordability and proximity to the US and Canada, many Global North property-buyers are looking to the colonial historic city center of Granada, Nicaragua as a site for relocation and investment. These migrants are purchasing and remodeling colonial-style homes as part of a broader transformation of the historic center to cater to international tourism and elite consumption. Many lifestyle migrants involved in the gentrification processes occurring in Granada are choosing transnational lifestyles by maintaining citizenship in their home countries, and simultaneously engaging in economic and social relationships in both Nicaragua and their home (or other) countries. The advantages that accompany their positions as migrants from the Global North greatly affect the lifestyle migrants’ roles in the transformation of the city, regardless of their own personal social and economic status at home. Many lifestyle migrants embrace a role of economic and social developers, and often enact a racist and neocolonialist understanding of the Nicaraguan people and culture as needing “improvement”. Lifestyle migrants are generally able to benefit from capital accumulated in Global North markets and their Global North citizen status enables them to live a mobile, transnational lifestyle. Such economic and mobility opportunities are unavailable for many Nicaraguans, further exacerbating the inequalities between local Nicaraguan residents and privileged lifestyle migrants.

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Wang, Zhong (June). "Displaced self and sense of belonging : a Chinese researcher studying Chinese expatriates working in the United States." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001423.

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Brewer, Brian. "Challenges for expatriate managers: an exploration of cross-cultural management, adjustment, and training issues faced by Anglo-American managers in Hong Kong." Thesis, Aston University, 1997. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10711/.

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This field work study furthers understanding about expatriate management, in particular, the nature of cross-cultural management in Hong Kong involving Anglo-American expatriate and Chinese host national managers, the important features of adjustment for expatriates living and working there, and the type of training which will assist them to adjust and to work successfully in this Asian environment. Qualitative and quantitative data on each issue was gathered during in-depth interviews in Hong Kong, using structured interview schedules, with 39 expatriate and 31 host national managers drawn from a cross-section of functional areas and organizations. Despite the adoption of Western technology and the influence of Western business practices, micro-level management in Hong Kong retains a cultural specificity which is consistent with the norms and values of Chinese culture. There are differences in how expatriates and host nationals define their social roles, and Hong Kong's recent colonial history appears to influence cross-cultural interpersonal interactions. The inability of the spouse and/or family to adapt to Hong Kong is identified as a major reason for expatriate assignments to fail, though the causes have less to do with living away from family and friends, than with Hong Kong's highly urbanized environment and the heavy demands of work. Culture shock is not identified as a major problem, but in Hong Kong micro-level social factors require greater adjustment than macro-level societal factors. The adjustment of expatriate managers is facilitated by a strong orientation towards career development and hard work, possession of technical/professional expertise, and a willingness to engage in a process of continuous 'active learning' with respect to the host national society and culture. A four-part model of manager training suitable for Hong Kong is derived from the study data. It consists of a pre-departure briefing, post-arrival cross-cultural training, language training in basic Cantonese and in how to communicate more effectively in English with non-native speakers, and the assignment of a mentor to newly arrived expatriate managers.

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Brewer, Brian. "Challenges for expatriate managers an exploration of cross-cultural management, adjustemnt, and training issues faced by anglo-american managers in Hong Kong /." Online version, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.262778.

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Sundman, Alexandra Gail. "The making of an American expatriate composer in Paris : a contextual study of the music and critical writings of Virgil Thomson, 1921-1940 /." Ann Arbor : UMI, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37659587v.

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Bennett, Nicole Mazzo. "The Repatriation Experiences of American Third Culture Kids." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ces_dissertations/12.

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American families moving abroad are often informed of the initial difficulties they will encounter as residents in a new culture; however, they may not recognize the possible subsequent effects on their children, when returning home to their native cultures during the repatriation process. The children who experience the effect of living in a new culture and eventually repatriating are known as Third Culture Kids (TCK). As globalization and expatriate populations increase, it is important that society becomes aware of the Third Culture community. This qualitative research study focused on analyzing the repatriation transition process of four Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCK) and explored the relationship between their emotional intelligence and their third culture and repatriating experiences. This dissertation provides a profile for what type of citizen a TCK may become upon repatriation. Framed within a narrative inquiry approach this study utilized the Listening Guide method of analysis in order to capture the participants’ final narrative portraits. Storied themes emerged from the final narratives providing evidence for this research study’s five main conclusions: (a) home is not defined by one physical location, (b) assimilation and repatriation do not equate, (c) emotional intelligence may be a factor in repatriation success, (d) Third Culture experiences influence civic engagement, and (e) there is one incident that is perceived as signifying the completion of repatriation. These findings offer a new perspective of the repatriating experience and provide insight for families entering the expatriate culture and returning home.

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Rogers, Robin Taylor. "Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware [electronic resource] : a study guide with annotated bibliography / by Robin Taylor Rogers." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000101.

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Henry-Campbell, Suzette Amoy. "The Future of Work: An Investigation of the Expatriate Experiences of Jamaican C-suite Female Executives in the Diaspora, on Working in Multi-national Companies." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/124.

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The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of Jamaican Expatriate Female C-suite executives in the diaspora of working in Multi-national Companies (MNCs). A further question to be answered was the meaning they derived from their experiences. With little research emerging from the Caribbean about this elite class of professionals, the research intended to expose the challenges faced as an outsider in unfamiliar spaces. Research on other groups have exposed limiting factors to women’s progress in MNCs. Critical Race Theory with a brief mention of Critical Human Geography and Intersectionality are lens applied to critique the experiences of the eight participants. This research mined the extant literature that looked at navigating barriers, disrupting stereotypes and gender diversity in international careers. The method of inquiry applied to this research was existential phenomenology and its utility in getting to the essence of the women’s lived experiences highlighted the glass-border phenomenon. In reflecting on the outcome, this research opens the door for scholars and practitioners alike, to critically assess the expatriate literature and to probe further the complex relationship between international business, the movement of black talent across geographic and culturally diverse boundaries and the challenges encountered. The results of this study illuminated several themes from the participants textural descriptions: (1) Moving from Invisible to Visible – Disrupting Bias; (2) Who am I? – Identity, Gender and Heritage; (3) Renegotiating the Rules of Engagement paired with Re-branding the Role and Authority of Women in Business; (4) Male Sponsorship Leads to Acceptance; (5) Improving Skill and Competency Capital for New Roles; (6) Building and Maintaining Bridges – Network Management.

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Haws, Catherine Bourg. "Remembering Vietnam War Veterans: Interpreting History Through New Orleans Monuments and Memorials." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2081.

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ABSTRACT This thesis is concerned with the question of how America’s citizen soldiers are remembered and how their services can be interpreted through monuments and memorials. The paper discusses the concept of memory and the functions of memorialization. It explores whether and how monuments and memorials portray the difficulties, hardships, horror, costs, and consequences of armed combat. The political motivations behind the design, formation and establishment of the edifices are also probed. The paper considers the Vietnam War monuments and memorials erected by Americans and Vietnam expatriates in New Orleans, Louisiana, and examines their illustrative and educational usefulness. Results reflect that although political benefits accrued from the realization of the memorial structures in question, far more important, palliative and meaningful motives brought about their construction. They also demonstrate that, when understood, monuments and memorials can be historically useful.

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Young, Anna R. "James Baldwin Black American expatriate /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8993.

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Habiger, Sheldon. "American companies' criteria and values for hiring or placing expatriate employees in China." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28420.

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This thesis examines the values and criteria American companies use in hiring or placing expatriate employees in China. These values and criteria affect the success or failure of expatriate employees and a company's bottom line - profitability. Investigating this topic required an examination of the history of the political, economic, and social philosophies that have shaped contemporary China. It was also necessary to examine expatriates and their role, and to define an American company. Cultural comparisons are made between the United States and China using Hofstede's Four Dimensions, Ronen and Shenkar's Country Clusters, and Hsu's analysis of internal versus external motivation. I explored the relationship between two primary personnel parties in an effort to define how success and failure are measured in overseas assignments. To this end, I interviewed 42 Americans working in China categorized into two groups - the Management Group and the Employee Group. AU participants were located in either Shanghai or Beijing. Based on the interviews, an analytic distinction was made between expatriates hired locally and those employees who were transferred from the United States to China. The results of this study found that local hires tended to be younger and have linguistic and cultural skills, while the expatriates sent from the United States tended to be older and have managerial and technical skills. Challenges confronting both managers and employees will be shown to primarily stem from: 1) External motivations, such lucrative compensation packages, not guaranteeing a successful assignment in China; 2) the focus of companies when hiring or placing an expatriate employee being based on technical and management expertise; 3) cultural and linguistic skills being important for successful expatriate assignments; and, 4) cultural and linguistic training positioning an expatriate to have a successful assignment. These findings lead to the following recommendations: 1) Top managers should be provided with cross-cultural training to understand the importance of cultural and linguistic skills; 2) companies in China should hire local expatriates who have linguistic, cultural, and adaptability skills; and, 3) an investment should be made in technical skills training for local hires rather than linguistic and cultural training for technical expatriate employees.
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Mohr, Alexander T., and S. Klein. "Exploring the adjustment of American Expatriate spouses in Germany." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3133.

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Cashman, Scott M. "Nightclub capitalism and expatriate jazz musicians in Paris." 2001. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3027185.

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The proliferation of the American music business has created a power elite which shapes and controls the popular music industry. For American blues and jazz musicians in the 20th century, becoming an expatriate served as an alternative to that subjugation. That alternative existed in the 1990s in some degree, though Europe too has fallen under the influence of American marketing of artists popular in the United States. This dissertation discusses the community of American expatriate jazz musicians currently living in Paris. These musicians derive the bulk of their income working in Parisian nightclubs and restaurants. Paris is often the focal point of a myth that Europe celebrates its blues and jazz musicians. The myth's logical conclusion is that expatriate American musicians find easy success in Europe. The community of working American musicians in Paris, however, must struggle to live, thereby replicating the existence of many of their counterparts in America. For a musician to now increase their European stature, and to increase their personal stature and fulfillment as a musician, building a career in the States prior to relocating to Europe is a more practical career plan. In the present, nightclub capitalism is international in scope and contributes to the shaping of the careers and, more fully, the lives of American expatriate jazz musicians.

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Jones-Corley, Jennifer A. ""Just one of those Dutch days" American expatriate spouses in the Netherlands : toward an expatriate frame management theory of acculturation /." 2002. http://www.etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/PSUonlyIndex/ETD-148/index.html.

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Lin, Chien-Ju, and 林倩如. "The Effect of Family Factors on Expatriate Policy and Expatriate Performance-The Comparative Study of American, Japanese and German MNEs in Taiwan." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66089960853075863121.

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中國文化大學
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The globalization of business has brought new dimensions now. MNE expatriate manager can bring outstanding expatriate performance with complete expatriate policy. Practically, many companies did not provide complete expatriate policy to MNE expatriate manager. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the key point of expatriate policy and expatriate performance. Family factors could cause an interference effect on the relationship between expatriate policy and expatriate performance. A questionnaire survey was used for subsidiary of American, Japan and German in Taiwan. A total of 250 questionnaires were collected from the survey, 133 valid responses were received for statistical analysis. Statistical results found that there are positive relationships between expatriate policy and expatriate performance. Five dimensions of expatriate policy (Selection, Cross-Culture Training, Welfare, Repatriation and the Support of MNE) and four dimensions of expatriate performance (contextual, technical, expatriate-specific, and overall performances) all showed positive correlations. On the interference effect of family factors, this study found support on expatriate policy as well as expatriate performance. However, there are two dimensions (family went with expatriate manager, family did not go with expatriate manager) that was this study defined. The family went with expatriate manager represented family factors were found that there were positive relationships between expatriate policy and expatriate performance. But the family didn’t go with expatriate manager represented family factors were found that there were not statistically significant. A comparison of American, Japanese and German companies found difference on the policy of expatriate. The researcher hope this study not only can realize the relationships between expatriate managers’ family factors on expatriate policy and expatriate performance, but also provide effective suggestions to enhance MNEs business operating performance.

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Rostam, Hajera. "The Iraqi expatriates’ experience of the North American media coverage of Iraq." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17752.

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There has been extensive media coverage of Iraqi home, culture, and people in the recent past. Concerns have arisen around an unbalanced and biased coverage of the conflict in Iraq, potential censorship or neglect of the humanitarian crisis in the region, and the associated discrimination of people with Middle Eastern ethnicity (Farhoumand- Sims, 2003; Miskin et al., 2003). In this study, I explored the following question: How have Iraqi adult immigrants living in Vancouver, Canada, experienced the recent North American media coverage of their culture, people, and country? Data were gathered through the use of individual interviews and the interpretive description methodology. Data from 10 participants (8 men, 2 women) were analyzed using Miles and Hubermans' (1994) analytic framework. Themes emerged that described the Iraqi expatriates' exposure to the North American media coverage of Iraq, and the overall responses including the initial impact of witnessing the coverage as well as the ongoing impact. The North American media was perceived to be biased in its coverage of the Iraq war, and that it often engaged in a negative portrayal of Iraqi people, culture, and the religion of Islam. Participants' responses to the initial phases of the coverage included: intense following of the news, difficulties in relationships, signs of depression, concern for families and Iraqis, and a sense of powerlessness. The ongoing impact of the coverage of Iraq brought forth various cultural challenges, changes in worldview, coping, and a desire to show alternative stories through the media.
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Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Wu, Yeong-Chin, and 吳永欽. "A Study of Intercultural Effectiveness for American and Japanese Expatriates in Taiwan." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70892341018386543089.

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The purpose of the research was to investigate Intercultural Effectiveness Competencies (ICE) for American and Japanese Expatriates in Taiwan. The ICE were success or competence in cross-cultures. Han (1997) concluded ICE were: 1.Communication competence 2.Psychological stress 3.Relationship building 4.Cultural empathy 5.Cross-cultural awareness. The research quoted 5 ICE items from Han and revised in English and Japanese questionnaires. The target population were American and Japanese expatriates in Taiwan. The data were analyzed with the SPSS software package and were submitted to MANOVA procedures corresponding to each hypothesis. Conclusion: 1.for all: ICE of respondents located in the category of American expatriates reported higher means than those respondents located in the category of Japanese expatriates. 2.for American expatriates:The following people have higher ICE: The higher stratum in the organization; working more than three years in other countries; willing to work in multinational enterprises in their career planning; having international co-workers. 3.for Japanese expatriates: The following people have higher ICE: local languages ability; international experience; having experience with other cultures; having participated in cross-cultural training programs; having international co-workers.

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Lan, Hui-Chuan, and 藍慧娟. "The Study of Intercultural Effectiveness affecting American and Japanese expatriates in Taiwan." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43872353508887198550.

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淡江大學
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In today’s dynamic world where the communication and transportation have reduced trade barriers considerably, as nations have become closer in recent decade through the growth of international trade and investment, companies are now confronted by the rapid globalization of markets and competitions. There are many problems could arise especially when dealing with the difference culture therefore,the increasing importance of expatriate’s manager to understand the multicultural difference around the different nations and can response accordingly as a key to successful competition for multinational enterprises (MNEs). While organization may deem the expatriate as the best method to extend foreign market thus, how to select the most appropriate individuals becomes very important. The purpose of this research focused on examining how the personal and situational factors can influence the Intercultural Effectiveness (ICE) competence of American and Japanese managers who managing their American and Japanese subordinates in Taiwan. The quantitative research method was used in this research and the questionnaire was modified Han’s(1997) research as the research instrument. Descriptive statistics, MANOVA and ANOVA were employed in this study. Through the factors analysis, MANOVA and ANOVA test, the results indicated in threefold:(1)for American expatriate: gender, language proficiency, attended extensive education programs,organization size,company type,company internationalization,position level,past international experience, future work,source of international experience, cross-cultural training and experience with other cultural were significantly associated with American expatriates ICE competence;(2)for Japanese expatriate:age,education level, attended extensive education programs,company type,company internationalization, position level,past international experience,sources of international experience,cross-cultural training and international co-worker or friends were significantly associated with Japanese expatriates ICE competence;(3)for all: American expatriates have higher ICE competencies than Japanese expatriates. Finally this study offered the baseline of Intercultural Effectiveness (ICE) competence for American and Japanese enterprises’human resource department for selecting and training expatriates more effectively.

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Churchill, David Stewart. "When home became away : American expatriates and new social movements in Toronto, 1965-1977 /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3019901.

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Moore, Ti'eshia Marie. "The sojourner's truth exploring bicultural identity as a predictor of assignment success in American expatriates /." 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03252009-152432/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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張琦德. "A Comparative Study of Training,Leadership and Satisfaction for Taiwanese,American and Janpanese Expatriates in Taiwan and Mainland." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50206532311250759978.

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