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Expatriation-Migration Continuum: Deconstructing Difference Within and Between Literature Domains Northumbria Research Link Citation: Stalker, Brenda (2015) The Third Gender: Exploring white western self-initiated expatriate women’s experiences in the United Arab Emirates through an intersectional lens. Doctoral thesis, Northumbria University. This version was downloaded from Northumbria Research Link: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/25995/ Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University’s research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html The Third Gender: Exploring white western self-initiated expatriate women’s experiences in the United Arab Emirates through an intersectional lens B. J. Stalker PhD 2014 i The Third Gender: Exploring white western self-initiated expatriate women’s experiences in the United Arab Emirates through an intersectional lens BRENDA JANE STALKER A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Research undertaken in the Newcastle Business School July 2014 ii Abstract This study directly responds to a call for theoretical and methodological expansion of our understanding of expatriate workers as a relational dynamic, embedded in a multi- layered and multifaceted country specific context (Al Ariss, Koall, Ozbilgin and Suutari, 2012) by exploring the experiences of western women self-initiated expatriates working in the United Arab Emirates. Extant research in the international management literature in female expatriation identified that western expatriate women working in Japan were primarily perceived as foreign women (a gaijin) by their Japanese colleagues (Adler, 1987). This construction was shown to allow these women to occupy a different, more advantageous social location within Japanese organisations with more degrees of freedom and less gender- based discrimination in comparison to Japanese women; conceptually referred to as constituting a ‘Third Gender’ (Adler, 1987). This positive social construction contributed to the efficacy of female expatriation strategies. Drawing upon the intersectionality literature, specifically from feminist and ethnic theorising, the thesis develops a gender with ethnicity (Broadbridge and Simpson, 2011:473) informed intersectional theoretical lens to explore the research question “How do western women self-initiated expatriates understand their experiences in the United Arab Emirates?” The theoretical potential of an intersectional studies lens to female expatriation is developed through the conceptual construction of ‘self-initiated expatriate women’ on the interconnecting boundaries between expatriation and migration studies. Purposeful sampling was used to collect accounts from ten expatriate women through semi structured interviews conducted in 2007-09. Drawing upon discourse and thematic coding enabled interpretations of the interplay between how expatriate women’s subjectivities are constructed through relational interaction and discourses at the micro, meso and macro level to explore their experiences in the UAE. This thesis offers an intersectional lens to expatriation studies as a dynamic theoretical lens through which rich multilevel relational contextual studies of women self-initiated expatriates are theorised and connect to new understandings of international mobility in international management and female expatriation studies. Through a fusion of the intersectional lens and expatriation literatures, in-depth interpretations are offered which identify new insights into, and surface some of the discourses contributing to the paradoxical relationship between privilege and marginalisation and problematising the specificities of ‘whiteness’. It offers three discourses risk, respect and complex ethnicity to include a country in the Middle East. Finally, this research process offers insights into the temporal, contextual and relationally contingent nature of intersectionality when exploring experiences of women in management studies. iii Table of contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................ iii Table of contents ......................................................................................................... iv Table of tables ............................................................................................................. xi Table of figures ............................................................................................................ xi Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................... xiii Declaration ................................................................................................................. xiv Chapter One: Introduction ............................................................................................. 1 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Personal experiences of expatriation .............................................................. 1 1.1.1 Implications for this study .......................................................................... 4 1.2. The focus of this study .................................................................................... 5 1.3. Key theoretical concepts underpinning the study ............................................ 5 1.3.1 The Third Gender ...................................................................................... 6 1.3.2 Self-initiated expatriates ............................................................................ 8 1.3.3 Place, space and time ............................................................................... 8 1.3.4 Intersectionality ......................................................................................... 9 1.3.5 Gender .................................................................................................... 10 1.3.6 Ethnicity .................................................................................................. 11 1.4. The research scope and limitations ............................................................... 12 1.5. The potential contributions of this study ........................................................ 12 1.6. The research aims and objectives ................................................................. 13 1.6.1 Methodology ............................................................................................ 15 1.7. Structure of the thesis ................................................................................... 15 1.8. Summary ...................................................................................................... 17 Chapter Two: UAE Country Context ........................................................................... 18 2. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 18 2.1. Regional context ........................................................................................... 18 2.1.1 Introduction to Regional context .............................................................. 18 iv 2.1.2 Regional challenges ................................................................................ 18 2.2. UAE context .................................................................................................. 19 2.2.1 Historical context ..................................................................................... 19 2.2.2 Sociocultural context ............................................................................... 20 2.2.3 Macro-economic context ......................................................................... 22 2.2.4 Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks ................................................. 26 2.3. Gender Relations in the UAE ........................................................................ 29 2.4. Implications of research context for study ..................................................... 31 2.5. Summary ...................................................................................................... 32 Chapter Three: Intersectional Lens: Exploring difference through gender with ethnicity ................................................................................................................................... 34 3. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 34 3.1. Intersectionality ............................................................................................. 35 3.1.1 Origins ....................................................................................................
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