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1. The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work

   Edited by Anne-Meike Fechter

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work. The contributions to this edited volume are based on the assumption that all actors are relevant in development, including national and international aid workers. A key question which...

   To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The New Expatriates

   Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals

   Edited by Anne-Meike Fechter, Katie Walsh

   While scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temporarily to destinations beyond ‘the West’. Such migrants are marginalised and depoliticised by debates on immigration policy, and thus there is an...

   Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals

   Edited by Anne Coles, Anne-Meike Fechter

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge