Precarity, Imagination, and the Mobile Life of the ‘Trailing Spouse’

Ethos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Cangià
Keyword(s):  
Trailing Spouse

Job Relocation and the Trailing Spouse

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shahnasarian
Keyword(s):  
Job Relocation ◽  
Trailing Spouse

Is the Tied Returnee Male or Female? The Trailing Spouse Thesis Reconsidered

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 872-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Amcoff ◽  
Thomas Niedomysl
Keyword(s):  
Trailing Spouse

scholarly journals The Life of a Trailing Spouse

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Vance P. Lemmon
Keyword(s):  
Trailing Spouse

Migration, cosmopolitanism and ‘global citizenship’ from the 1990s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Hammerton
Keyword(s):  
British Politics ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Transnational Marriage ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Serial Migration ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shifting Identities ◽  
Trailing Spouse ◽  
Globalising World

This chapter concludes the chronological section by examining testimony of migrants from the 1990s, pointing to intensification of cosmopolitan mentalities and motivations like lifestyle enhancement. It focuses in some depth on stories of two generations of women through the separate but connected mobilities of mother and daughter, both global in outlook but deeply loyal to adopted localities. Noting that scholarship on globalisation has done little to relate the macro trends to mentalities of ordinary people, it suggests that modern migrant story-telling might shed light on how the globalising world has impacted upon wider populations as well as migrants themselves. It scrutinizes politically motivated mobility, particularly inspired by hostility to British politics and class, involving both expatriate employment, transnational marriage and serial migration; this is juxtaposed against family migration and travel seemingly devoid of political motivations but imbued with a virtual lifetime of adventure motivations. The chapter concludes with a case of a woman’s serial migration from Britain to Europe to South Africa to Australia, highlighting experiences of the ‘trailing spouse’ of an expatriate husband, of their later migration, and the impact of frequent mobility on marriage and family as well as on shifting identities.

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