Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work

“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