{"id":1934,"date":"2014-10-23T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:56:26","slug":"global-mobility-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2014\/10\/23\/global-mobility-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Mobility in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"global-hr5153-370x229\"<\/a>Today I would like to share with you one peculiar insight I recently became aware of when planning the forthcoming weeks in my calendar.<\/p>\n

Specifically, I was invited to attend an event<\/a> hosted by the Barcelona city council, which is meant specifically for expat<\/strong>s in the area. The event is part of a campaign for expat<\/strong>s called \u2018I am Barcelonian\u2019, and is scheduled for October 25. Although I perfectly match the addressed population and would have been genuinely eager to attend, I could not put the event into my schedule, as I will be out of Barcelona that day. Where will I be? In Copenhagen, co-chairing a conference<\/a> on international management.<\/p>\n

The peculiarity that struck me was that on October 25, I will be fulfilling two roles, being simultaneously \u201ca German expatriate<\/strong>\u201d living in Barcelona and a Barcelonian \u201cexpatriate<\/strong>\u201d (or international business traveller for that matter) spending some time in Copenhagen thinking about international management more broadly \ud83d\ude42 Playing a little more with this fact made me conclude that on that very day in October expatriating myself from Barcelona would prevent me from attending an event as a German expatriate<\/strong>. Finally, I would probably confuse colleagues in Copenhagen by saying that I expatriated there from Spain, where I am a German expatriate<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

Still following? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Although this is not the most extraordinary day in my expat life and career, this overlap of events makes for a good illustration of global mobility<\/strong> overall. Increasingly, it is becoming really difficult to follow the notions of \u2018who\u2019, \u2018where to\u2019 and \u2018from where\u2019 in global mobility. Maybe in a few years \u2018I am Barcelonian\u2019 would become too narrow and limiting a title for any expat<\/strong> story to fit with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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