Dancing to two tunes: The role of bicultural identity and strong ties in skilled migrants’ value-driven protean careers

Gunasekara, Asanka; Bertone, Santina; Almeida, Shamika; Crowley–Henry, Marian

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.12.007

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“…In conclusion, we call on researchers in the domain of international human resource management and global mobility to direct future research toward ambitiously exploring global mobility at and across different levels (the macro/national context, the organisational support context, and the individual circumstance context) (Crowley-Henry et al, 2019); to investigate the heterogeneity and diversity of facilitating and inhibiting factors across countries, organisations and individuals (Collings et al, 2021); and to include details concerning individual intersectional attributes and characteristics that impact on diverse career and global mobility decision making over time and circumstance (Gunasekara et al, 2021).…”

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“…It could be argued that the future of global mobility is in a state of flux and uncertainty. Calls have been made to scrutinise the career-related experiences of globally mobile populations more closely across different units of analysis (Collings et al, 2021;Crowley-Henry, et al, 2019;Gunasekara, et al, 2021), focusing on contextualised careers research (Mayrhofer, Smale, Briscoe, Dickmann and Parry, 2020), over time and circumstance (Gunz and Mayrhofer, 2018) in order to better understand divergent, convergent and/ or crossvergent career trajectories. Moreover, the topic of global mobility during COVID-19 is ripe for scholarly research and analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tales from the Irish diaspora during COVID-19: Prompting a future research agenda for global mobility

Crowley–Henry

Coogan

Redmond

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The Irish Journal of Management

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The COVID-19 global pandemic raises fundamental questions about the future of global mobility. This paper considers publicly posted blog posts from members of the Irish diaspora during the early months of the global pandemic in 2020. Using real-time self-reporting blogs permitted an unobtrusive snapshot into the living experiences of members of the Irish diaspora during this time. Content analysis was undertaken on a total of fifty-nine individual blogs, and key themes across the blogs are explored. The primary theme of technology as both enabler and inhibiter is unpacked, in relation to global communication, work-life balance and working from home – anywhere in the world. A research agenda pertaining to the future of global mobility is proposed.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Tales from the Irish diaspora during COVID-19: Prompting a future research agenda for global mobility

Crowley–Henry

Coogan

Redmond

et al. 2021

The Irish Journal of Management

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“…The complexity inherent in SIEs' careers is multi-faceted and multi-layered, including spatial and cultural issues regarding home and host country influences and interrelationships (Gunasekara et al. , 2021; Jooss et al.…”

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The influence of complexity, chance and change on the career crafting strategies of SIEs

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Andresen²,

Crowley–Henry³

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PurposeExternalities influence the career trajectories of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and their respective career crafting. This study aims to explore the international career crafting of SIEs (encompassing their proactive career reflection and construction), taking the combined external influences of complexity, chance and change into consideration.Design/methodology/approachThe authors employ a qualitative (interpretative) approach, combining career crafting and the chaos theory of careers (CTC) to further understand, from an individual standpoint, the impact of externalities on the career crafting strategies of 24 SIEs who have relocated within the European Union.FindingsThe authors show that SIEs' proactively craft their careers to varying degrees and with varying frequency. The CTC – incorporating complexity, chance and change – allows for a more nuanced understanding of SIEs' career crafting.Originality/valueThis paper applies the concept of career crafting to an international context, exploring the impact of externalities on SIEs' careers. In this way, the authors combine two previously separate theories, extend the application of career crafting to an international career context and emphasise the role of temporality and the whole-life view of career in SIEs’ career crafting approach.

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“…In the careers of SIEs, this complexity of influences is compounded by a geographical split, therefore encompassing both home and host countries. The complexity inherent in SIEs' careers is multi-faceted and multi-layered, including spatial and cultural issues regarding home and host country influences and interrelationships (Gunasekara et al, 2021;Jooss et al, 2021), as well as managing aspects of acculturation (Hajro et al, 2019) and personal well-being, including that of trailing spouses and/or families (Mello et al, 2022;Shaffer et al, 2016). K€ ans€ al€ a et al (2015), for instance, show how gender and complex considerations regarding relationship hierarchy influence the career strategies of dual career expatriate couples.…”

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“…In CTC and systems thinking, change indicates a new state of the (individual) system and the environment in which it operates Bright, 2007, 2011). Life/career changes can be more profound for expatriates as geographical mobility entails adapting to new cultures (Gunasekara et al, 2021;Hajro et al, 2019) and adjusting to cognitive changessuch as language and CDI communication style differences (Furusawa and Brewster, 2018) and new work-related conventions (Andresen et al, 2020).…”

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The Influence of Complexity, Chance and Change on the Career Crafting Strategies of SIEs

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Purpose -Externalities influence the career trajectories of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and their respective career crafting. This study aims to explore the international career crafting of SIEs (encompassing their proactive career reflection and construction), taking the combined external influences of complexity, chance and change into consideration. Design/methodology/approach -The authors employ a qualitative (interpretative) approach, combining career crafting and the chaos theory of careers (CTC) to further understand, from an individual standpoint, the impact of externalities on the career crafting strategies of 24 SIEs who have relocated within the European Union. Findings -The authors show that SIEs' proactively craft their careers to varying degrees and with varying frequency. The CTCincorporating complexity, chance and changeallows for a more nuanced understanding of SIEs' career crafting. Originality/value -This paper applies the concept of career crafting to an international context, exploring the impact of externalities on SIEs' careers. In this way, the authors combine two previously separate theories, extend the application of career crafting to an international career context and emphasise the role of temporality and the whole-life view of career in SIEs' career crafting approach.

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Dancing to two tunes: The role of bicultural identity and strong ties in skilled migrants’ value-driven protean careers

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Tales from the Irish diaspora during COVID-19: Prompting a future research agenda for global mobility

Tales from the Irish diaspora during COVID-19: Prompting a future research agenda for global mobility

The influence of complexity, chance and change on the career crafting strategies of SIEs

The Influence of Complexity, Chance and Change on the Career Crafting Strategies of SIEs

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