Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work
Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans
By Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Published
Mar 17, 2021Page count
174 pagesISBN
978-1529204599Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 26, 2019Page count
174 pagesISBN
978-1529204544Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 26, 2019Page count
174 pagesISBN
978-1529204568Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 26, 2019Page count
174 pagesISBN
978-1529204568Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressIn the media
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In an increasingly globalized world, mobility is a new defining feature of our lives, livelihoods and work experiences. This book is a first in utilising transnational migration studies as a new theoretical framework in management and organization studies. Ozkazanc-Pan presents a much-needed new concept for understanding people, work and organizations in a world on the move while attending to growing inequality associated with work in changing societies.
“Reading Özkazanç-Pan’s book, in times of COVID-19, made me reflect once again on our role as critical scholars; our obligation to challenge bounded subjectivities in the context of an increasingly globalized world; and simultaneously to examine how individual experiences around inequality need to define our study of the mobile body-in-the world, and the contexts in which we negotiate our translocal identities." Organization
"The most important contribution of this book, for me, is its analysis of mainstream diversity research. The author clearly reveals its limitations both in general and, in particular, when it comes to transmigrants." Gender, Work and Organization
''This comprehensive and engaging book provides a valuable way in which organization studies can engage with transnational migration studies. Ozkazanc-Pan initiates a valuable theoretical conversation.'' Raza Mir, William Paterson University
"What happens when we acknowledge mobility as the natural order of the social world? How does our thinking about people, about diversity, and inequality in the workplace need to change?
Drawing on Transnational Migration Studies, the author extends an ontology of mobility for understanding possible selves under conditions of dynamic global change. Moving beyond fixed notions of identity and culture, and bringing in power and history, she demonstrates the profound ethical and epistemological implications, as well as needed change, in the ways in which difference has been theorized, researched, valued, and reproduced in the diversity and cross-cultural management fields.
Both critical and hopeful, her transnational perspective is a much-needed intervention aiming to toward a fundamental transformation in the conversation about multiculturalism and inequality in organizations." Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich, University of Massachusetts
Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Gender, Work and Organization, Banu Özkazanç-Pan is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Massachusetts and visiting Associate Professor at Brown University.
Introduction
Transnational migration studies
Transmigrants
Hybrid selves
Cosmopolitans
Diversity Research After Mobility: Multiculturalism
Inequalities on the Move
Mobile methodologies
Imagining a Transnational Future for Research on Differences