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A Good Beginning is Halfway to Successiates); however, a number of expatriates choose to make their own arrangements in order to find a job abroad (‘self-selected’ or ‘self-initiated’ expatriates), or to set up their own business (entrepreneurs). In the case of Italy, the decision to seek overseas employment is also often due to the poo

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Pre-Departure Knowledge experience and an initial literature review. I am almost ashamed to admit that I had underestimated what turned out to be probably the most important and most passionately argued topic of the subsequent interviews conducted for this study: the importance of cultural as well as linguistic understand

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Recruitment and Preparation foreign assignments could improve the rate of those who manage to adjust and avoid turnover or early repatriation Caligiuri, Tarique and Jacobs (2009) note how being qualified and performing in one country does not necessarily imply success abroad, ever in the same role. Given that expatriate perfo

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Expatriate Adjustmentdaily living, it seemed so distant. Parker and McEvoy (1993) found an inverse relationship exists between cultural toughness (which is defined as the difference between the expatriate’s home and host cultures) and level of adjustment, so that very distant cultures may require higher levels of adjust

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No Place Like Homelly defined. Liminality can also manifest itself in terms of spaces. I asked my interviewees if they had felt at home in China and what ‘home’ means for them. Ahmed (1999: 330) suggests that home is not a building but the place where people deal with the intricacies of their ‘belonging’ in relation

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