Uses / Misuses / Abuses of Terms on International Mobility and Work: Possible Dialogues between Administration and Anthropology

• Autor(a) principal: Scherer, Laura Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Prestes, Vanessa Amaral, Grisci, Carmem Ligia Iochins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências da Administração
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/adm/article/view/60365

This paper aims to discuss theoretically the main terms and concepts related to the association "international mobility and work" present in Administration and Anthropology; and to argue in favor of the increase of the dialogue between the areas and of the theoretical-empirical enrichment of the subject. Among the terms studied are expatriate, self-initiated expatriate, flexpatriate and global managers, in Administration; and immigrant, diaspora, transnational and refugee, in Anthropology. Each area makes a specific cut, which can promote reductionist classifications of the plurality of life and be an innocuous task to the advancement of knowledge, given the speed of changes in countries relations, in motivations of world displacement and in work settings. It is argued that the common point to individuals crossing borders still seems to be the word migration - all are migrants, emmigrants and immigrants - whereby dialogue can illustrate their diverse dimension of life and work.