{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrmagazine.co.uk\/hr\/features\/1141637\/global-mobility\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1936\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/files\/2014\/10\/global-hr5153-370x229-e1414058097178.jpg\" alt=\"global-hr5153-370x229\" width=\"290\" height=\"179\" \/><\/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<p>Specifically, I was invited to attend an <a href=\"http:\/\/iambarcelonian.barcelonactiva.cat\/en\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">event<\/a> hosted by the Barcelona city council, which is meant specifically for <strong>expat<\/strong>s in the area. The event is part of a campaign for <strong>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiasm.org\/frontoffice\/event_announcement.asp?event_id=1058\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a> on international management.<\/p>\n<p>The peculiarity that struck me was that on October 25, I will be fulfilling two roles, being simultaneously \u201ca German <strong>expatriate<\/strong>\u201d living in Barcelona and a Barcelonian \u201c<strong>expatriate<\/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 <strong>expatriate<\/strong>. Finally, I would probably confuse colleagues in Copenhagen by saying that I expatriated there from Spain, where I am a German <strong>expatriate<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Still following? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Although this is not the most extraordinary day in my expat life and career, this overlap of events makes for a good illustration of <strong>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 <strong>expat<\/strong> story to fit with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I would like to share with you one peculiar insight I recently became aware of when planning the forthcoming weeks in my calendar. 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