Le national à distance. Circulation de normes et réécriture du politique de la Tunisie by Stéphanie Pouessel

“…Whether students residing abroad, expatriate workers, children of mixed Tunisian couples, political exiles or descendants from prominent political families in exile, such «national but remote» expatriates represent a wealth of potentially mobilisable outside social and political experience available to the practice of politics in Tunisia. …”
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Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Suquṭra and the Gulf by Nathalie M. Peutz

“…Two historical events that occurred on the Yemeni island of Suquṭra — the conquest of the island by “Christians” in the 9th century and the execution of a group of Suquṭran elites in 1974 —are made relevant today in poetry exchanges between the island residents and the Suquṭran expatriate community in the Gulf. Through these poems and the context of their transnational circulation, the Suquṭran Diaspora is vying for the ability to determine Suquṭri heritage at a time that international, state, and local actors are advancing competing claims for that right. …”
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“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”:Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime United States by Stefano Luconi

“…This article reconstructs the plight of Anna Foa Yona, a Jewish expatriate who escaped from Italy, along with her family, in the wake of the Fascist 1938 anti-Semitic measures. …”
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Knowing from a Distance by Sophia Deterala, Eula Bianca Villar

“…Locating our work within our positionalities as expatriate Filipino researchers of considerable distance/closeness from each other, we find, albeit serendipitously, how our improvisational methodologies can occur en route to, during, and in, the aftermath of crisis. …”
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L’initiation. Entretien avec un client de la prostitution by Sébastien Roux

“…However, by publishing extracts from an in-depth interview conducted with Damien – a French young expatriate met in Bangkok during a fieldwork on ‘sex tourism’ – I suggest that prostitution is a complex process, too often reduced to an univocal relation of domination. …”
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Repenser l’intégration républicaine à l’aune de l’interculturalité by Alexander Frame

“…Companies spend a lot of money on training for expatriate managers, while tens of thousands of other migrants, often alienated from society, do not have the benefit of such cultural awareness training. …”
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Les « dissidences non dissidentes » du Front Polisario dans les camps de réfugiés et la diaspora sahraouis by Carmen Gómez Martín, Cédric Omet

“…Sahrawi society is today restructuring under the pressure of new political organizations formed by young people within three contexts : occupied territories, refugee camps and expatriate national groups. Twenty years of diplomatic failures have led to the emergence of groups who have re-appropriated the rhetoric of a call to arms and the challenge to existing power structures. …”
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Communication for development in Africa by Robert Agunga

“…Calls for involving beneficiaries in democratic project decision making, for conducting systematic social science research as the basis for external intervention, and for building the capacities of indigenous officials to reduce national dependence on expatriate expertise have gone unheeded. Development policies, nowadays are sound but until these are properly carried out poverty eradication will be impOSSible. …”
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LA FRUSTRATION IDENTITAIRE. QUELQUES IDÉES DE MIHAI MITREA-CELARIANU SUR L’ÉCOLE ROUMAINE DE COMPOSITION by Luana STAN

“…After the Romanian revolution (1989), many composers tried to express their point of view about the existence or the absence of a “Romanian music school” and so often, their opinion was influenced by their own situation as expatriate people in different occidental countries. …”
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An Application of Cluster Analysis Method to Determine Vietnam Airlines’ Ground Handling Service Quality Benchmarks by Tien-Chin Wang, Yen Thi Hong Pham

“…Additionally, the given model provides expatriate station managers with a clearer viewpoint of the localized productivity level as performed in relation to other airports concomitant within their own clusters.…”
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Bahrain’s tertiary education reform : a step towards sustainable economic development by Magdalena Karolak

“…The reasons behind this large-scale expansion of higher education include the growth of local and expatriate population, the planned transition from oil industry to a knowledge-based economy as well as the growing role of women in the workforce. …”
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Being Geniuses Together: Ghostwriting and the Uncanny of Robert McAlmon’s and Kay Boyle’s (Out of) Joint Autobiography by Anna Linzie

“…Kay Boyle’s supplementary edition (1968) of Robert McAlmon’s Being Geniuses Together (1938) is a self-deconstructive survey of the expatriate community of English and American writers and artists in Paris in the 1920s. …”
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Janet Flanner’s The Cubical City and the Life She Left Behind by Rai PETERSON

“…While Flanner’s protagonist is trapped into marriage, Flanner herself escaped a similar fate by fleeing to Paris as an expatriate. Recent critical attention has shed light on lesbian roman à clef works by English and American expatriates published in 1928, including Djuna Barnes’ Ladies Almanack, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. …”
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An Investigation on the Link between International Labor Migration and Undocumented Employment: Evidence from Turkish Cinema by Hasan Yüksel

“…Based upon a Turkish movie named after “Gurbetci Saban (Saban the Expatriate)”, this essay analyzes the portrayal of the link between international labor migration and underground employment within the framework of Turkish immigrants in Germany. …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…The contribution of Darantière in the dissemination of Anglo-American literary experiment will be measured alongside the expanding role of the printer, from craftsman to vector of the new expatriate writing.…”
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The Profile of Saudi Nursing Workforce: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohammad Alboliteeh, Judy Magarey, Richard Wiechula

“…The Royal Monarchy in Saudi Arabia decreed that all sectors of the workforce would be subject to a policy of “Saudisation” to reduce the reliance on the expatriate workforce and to reduce the unemployment rate of Saudi nationals (Al-Mahmoud et al., 2012). …”
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Strategi Komunikasi Pekerja Migran Indonesia dalam Mengatasi Culture Shock Selama Bekerja di Jepang by Moch. Ahdan Athallah, Ferry Adhi Dharma

“…Lastly, the interactive strategy involves efforts to improve intercultural communication skills by joining Indonesian expatriate communities in Japan and being open to new values encountered while working in Japan.…”
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CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) IN CONTRACTING ORGANISATION by Oluwaseyi AJAYI, Temidayo OSUNSANMI

“…The cross-sectional research design is used for this study and the population entails construction professionals in indigenous and expatriate construction companies in Nigeria. Random sampling procedure was used to select the respondents. …”
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CONSTRUCTION STAKEHOLDERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON EXTERNAL RELATED RISK FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PERFORMANCE by ABDARAHIM SALEM, Eric SIMPEH, Julius Fapohunda

“…The salient findings revealed that socio-political-related risk factors are the major causes of risks during construction project delivery, these factors include labour strikes and disputes due to union issues, excessive influence by government on court proceedings regarding construction project disputes, and constraints on the availability and employment of expatriate staff. In addition, the study revealed the impact of construction risks on projects and organisational performance, and it was found that cost overrun was ranked the most significant on project performance and disputes between parties to the contract was ranked the most significant on organisational performance. …”
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Referral Activity in Three Store-and-Forward Networks during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic by Richard Wootton, Hansel Otero, Meghan Moretti

“…Two of the networks (networks B and C) used local staff to submit referrals, while network A relied mainly on its expatriate staff. During the first half of 2020, the numbers of referrals received on network B increased substantially, while in contrast, the numbers of referrals on network A declined. …”
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