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Not sure about this: it might be argued from the Lacanian perspective that true emancipation lies in acceptance rather than striving 

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Not sure about this: it might be argued from the Lacanian perspective that true emancipation lies in acceptance rather than striving 

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Yes: might  be useful to direct the conversation to examine expats' previous experiences of career development

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Yes: might  be useful to direct the conversation to examine expats' previous experiences of career development

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Yes: 'why did you choose to work here?'  A crucial question

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Yes: 'why did you choose to work here?'  A crucial question

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This is a potentially useful concept ... roots perhaps in the profession or through the expat community

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This is a potentially useful concept ... roots perhaps in the profession or through the expat community

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Identity is not something that people are used to talking about: access this indirectly: 'how did you see yourself / how do you see yourself now' or 'what sort of person would you say you were / are / are trying to be?'

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Identity is not something that people are used to talking about: access this indirectly: 'how did you see yourself / how do you see yourself now' or 'what sort of person would you say you were / are / are trying to be?'

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'Lack' is unconscious and needs to be accessed in an indirect way

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'Lack' is unconscious and needs to be accessed in an indirect way

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What brought the participant here?
What did they feel they lacked in their previous role/home country?
(has the experience of being a self-initiated expat liberated them? or given them an identity they couldn't forge at home?)
Try to tie to photo-elicitation somehow - new prompts needed - photographs that contrast their identity 'back home' and identity here?

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As a social phenomenon constructed and communicated through language, the identity of individuals can be considered as an unfinished ‘project’ that remains open to contestation and change over time (Ainsworth & Hardy, 2004) (Antaki & Widdicombe, 1998)

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Workers' careers were no longer necessarily 'bound' to an organization for development
and hierarchical progression, but rather contemporary careers were a reflection of the greater social phenomenon of disorder and chaos in the world of globalization (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996). This theme was extended in 'The law of vocational chaos' which was proposed to 'shed light on the characteristics of the very tumultuous career of adults in our Western societies' (Riverin-Simard, 2000, p. 118), a context which was perceived to be 'increasingly characterized by precariousness, flexibility, instability, intermittence, and insecurity'. (Riverin-Simard, 2000, p. 115) Boundaryless careers have placed the 'ownership of careers primarily [to] the hands of individual actors rather than institutions' (Peiperl & Arthur, 2000, p. 6). Thus the onus of responsibility for career development has consequently been transferred to the workers, with the implication being

that they now need to be in control of their own career destiny – whether they desired this or not (Pang, Chua, & Chu, 2008).

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from a psychoanalytic, Lacanian perspective, human subjectivity is defined by a fundamental lack of being (Lacan, 1977b: 214). Whenever we narrate our subjective experience and thereby consciously attempt to say who we are and what we want, our rhetorical constructions also reflect disruptions, discontinuities and breaking points. These discontinuities surface unconscious desire that is not satisfied by whatever ‘it’ is that we thereby pursue. Consequently, when narrators describe their ‘its’ as all that stresses them out at work, what I am looking for are the disruptions in their narratives that point to a more fundamental lack. I hope to underline [in the case of expats] consciously is a lack of having but that when we look deeper we can also uncover a lack of being. Facing this lack of being may also offer opportunities for liberation and empowerment. (see Driver 2012)

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People actively construct cultural identity and... identity construction is a matter of meaning-making (Jenkins, 2014)

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Suutari and Brewster (2000) - many different kinds of SIEs (young opportunists, job seekers, officials, localized professionals, international professionals and members of dual-career families) - international teachers more likely to be which of these? (find out reasons for self-initiated expat status)

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having “roots”
and “wings” at the same time’ Appiah’s (1997) term.

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self-initiated expats are people who seek liberation from structurally imposed traditional workplace or local community identies, and the liberation to 'do' identity work of their own

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expats seek ‘a model of identity liberated from the modern grid of identity formation’ (Skrbiš and Woodward, 2013: 11)