... migration, and language power emerges as relevant far beyond the scope of the multinational corporation. Self-initiated expatriates Whiteness Cosmopolitanism Integration Global South Highly-skilled migrants East Germany Compressed modernity Language power White subaltern Ethnography...

... female partners from an emerging global south economy and a patriarchal society as it relates to motives for supporting a partner’s international assignment (IA) to a developed country. Design/methodology/approach This investigation adopts a hermeneutic interpretive phenomenology research design...