This paper is in a special edition of the Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, within the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) field. It introduces, for the first time in IHRM research, the rapidly growing body of expatriate teachers in \u2018international schools\u2019. The IHRM literature is usually concerned with the corporate, or assigned, expatriate sent abroad to work for a multi-national company. However, this view is out-dated and in need of major refinement. There are now many groups of workers who have voluntarily sought to work abroad, in the globalized labour-market. The body of international school teachers is therefore presented as a neglected community of non-corporate expatriates, alongside other bodies of \u2018new\u2019 expatriates such as professional sports-people or English-language teachers.<\/p>\n
This paper reveals to the \u2018external\u2019 i.e. non-education world, that the body of expatriate teachers in \u2018international schools\u2019 is growing rapidly, and is forecast to reach up to 800,000 by 2026, yet the literature still largely neglects their realities of every-day life as an expatriate. Recent figures estimate that 17,000 British teachers move abroad each year to teach in an international school. Simply put, teachers in international schools have escaped discussion as expatriates yet warrant much greater attention. They have many concerns and challenges that are not currently being fully addressed.
\nThis paper presents a conceptual framework for identifying a possible reason for this neglect; the teachers in international schools can be viewed as \u2018middling actors\u2019, caught in a \u2018middle space\u2019 of the emergent \u2018business expatriate\u2019 concept, between the discussion about\u00a0corporate expatriates and precariat workers. The emergent discussion about expatriates is attempting to move towards viewing a broad spectrum of actors, and teachers in international schools can be viewed as being somewhere in the middle.\u00a0The concept of the \u2018middling actor\u2019 can be further developed, and international schools offer a rich area of research for expatriate researchers.<\/p>\n
Full Reference: Tristan Bunnell (2017) \"Teachers in international schools: a neglected \u2018middling actor\u2019 in expatriation\",\u00a0Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research<\/em>, Vol. 5 Issue: 2, doi: 10.1108\/JGM-07-2016-0033<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This paper is in a special edition of the Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, within the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) field. It introduces, for the first time in IHRM research, the rapidly growing body...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internationalisation-and-globalisation-of-education"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}