{"id":579,"date":"2011-11-10T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=579"},"modified":"2011-11-24T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T13:25:36","slug":"579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2011\/11\/10\/579\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Highly mobile expatriates don’t attach any sense of home to the different places they travel to."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Identifying a place as home starts with the question of \u2018what makes this place home for a person?\u2019 Common sense would tell us that the feeling of \u2018home\u2019 is experienced both through material and immaterial factors. For many people, a sense of home is gained through belongings, for example your own apartment with your personal decorations and your DVD collection. At the same time, home is where you belong to a family, a social group, and a culture; where you speak your native language; and where you spent the most time of your life.<\/p>\n

However, what if you are a highly mobile expatriate, who is constantly moving around and changing places? Going on an assignment makes an expatriate leave behind most of his\/her belongings; to some extent detach him-\/herself from family, friends and home-based colleagues; and settle into a new culture and society. Adjusting to these changes and converting the new reality into a new home is probably very difficult and time consuming.<\/p>\n

Hence, may we argue that highly mobile expatriates don’t attach any sense of home to the different places they travel to? Is it Fact or Fiction?<\/p>\n

Have a look at some evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going on an assignment makes an expatriate leave behind most of the belongings; to some extent detaches from personal relationships; and settles into a new culture and society. Adjusting to these changes and converting the new reality into a new home is probably very difficult and time consuming. Hence, do the highly mobile expatriates attach any sense of home to the different places they travel to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-or-urban-legend"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t