{"id":35686,"date":"2023-08-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2023-08-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:00:00","slug":"youve-been-promoted-to-trailing-spouse-an-autoethnographic-account-of-expat-life-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=35686","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve Been Promoted to \u201cTrailing Spouse\u201d: An Autoethnographic Account of Expat Life in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Keeley M. Buehler Hunter<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/joae.2023.4.1.54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/joae.2023.4.1.54<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This autoethnography explores one woman\u2019s international move from Colorado to Switzerland in the role of <em>trailing spouse<\/em>. <em>Trailing spouse<\/em> describes a person who moves abroad to support his or her spouse\u2019s career. This term conjures an experience defined by a lack of agency and often intense identity struggle and can foreshadow some of the challenges trailing spouses face upon arrival in their new country. The author critically calls her identity, privilege, and gender roles into question as she navigates what it means to be a new mother, wife, academic, and expat in the role of trailing spouse. She exposes the invisible work of reorienting her identity to the new culture and roles, something she was too overwhelmed to do while living abroad. By examining how the role of trailing spouse is conceptualized and lived, it becomes clear that supporting spouses in an international move must make space for identity struggle instead of consistency or coherence. This piece argues that trailing spouses need to find space to embrace the identity struggle, in a world that values identity coherence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-metadata-panel clearfix rs_skip\">\n<div class=\"widget-SolrResourceMetadata widget-instance-ContentMetadata_ArticleFulltext_Article\">\n<div class=\"content-metadata-keywords\">\n<div class=\"content-metadata-keywords-title\">Keywords:<\/div>\n<p>trailing spouse, gender, culture, identity, privilege<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Keeley M. Buehler Hunter Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/joae.2023.4.1.54 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[739,7,151,9,634,714,21,148,55,435,627,91,347],"class_list":["post-35686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-family-racism","tag-739","tag-article","tag-cultural-identity","tag-english-language","tag-ethnography","tag-expatriates","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-high-skilled-immigrants","tag-motherhood","tag-partner","tag-social-integration","tag-testimonies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}