Reproduction of: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, v. 36, issue 8.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examining 'expatriate' continuities: postcolonial approaches to mobile professionals / Anne-Meike Fechter and Katie Walsh -- 'New Shanghailanders' or 'New Shanghainese': Western expatriates' narratives of emplacement in Shanghai / James Farrer -- 'Realising the self and developing the African': German immigrants in Namibia / Heidi Armbruster -- Work, identity and change? post/colonial encounters in Hong Kong / Pauline Leonard -- Institutionalising the colonial imagination: Chinese middlemen and the transnational corporate office in Jakarta, Indonesia / William H. Leggett -- Gender, empire, global capitalism: colonial and corporate expatriate wives / Anne-Meike Fechter -- A postcolonial imagination? Westerners searching for authenticity in India / Mari Korpela -- From 'trucial state' to 'postcolonial' city? The imaginative geographies of British expatriates in Dubai / Anne Coles and Katie Walsh -- 'They called them communists then. . .What d'you call 'em now?. . . Insurgents?' Narratives of British military expatriates in the context of the new imperialism / Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor.

While scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move to destinations beyond 'the West'. Such migrants are marginalised and depoliticised by debates on immigration policy, so there is a need to develop understanding of these movements.