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dc.contributor.authorFisher, Kelly
dc.contributor.authorHutchings, Kate
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Luisa Helena
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-28T05:35:04Z
dc.date.available2019-02-28T05:35:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0147-1767
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.05.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/161400
dc.description.abstractThis exploratory study focuses on the lived acculturation experiences of United States (US) female career military expatriates who worked and lived in combat settings across five war zones. Based on an analysis of oral histories that spanned over 60 years, the research revealed that these pioneering women had a strong commitment to their profession, and that this, along with camaraderie, facilitated their adaptation to living conditions characterized by extreme danger, nominal domestic comforts, and unrelenting work requirements in culturally unfamiliar contexts. The research identified the multiple physical and psychological stressors of living and working as a female in a war zone and the variety of coping strategies employed for acculturation, particularly the prominent role of relational support from family and friends, and a combination of personal coping mechanisms (such as crying or compartmentalization) and religious faith. As extant expatriate research has overwhelmingly focused on male executives in multinational corporations, this research is significant in extending the literature to an analysis of the public sector, specifically women deployed overseas in highly dangerous settings and who were pioneering in both their roles in the military and as non-traditional expatriates at a time when few women worked internationally.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom265
dc.relation.ispartofpageto277
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations
dc.relation.ispartofvolume49
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3505
dc.subject.keywordsFemale expatriate
dc.subject.keywordsExtreme context
dc.subject.keywordsLived experience
dc.subject.keywordsMilitary
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.titlePioneers across war zones: The lived acculturation experiences of US female military expatriates
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHutchings, Kate


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