Bozionelos Nikos
EM Lyon Business School, Écully, France.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 24;10:3024. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03024. eCollection 2019.
The study explored barriers to career progression of Chinese self-initiated expatriate (SIE) women in the United Kingdom using semi-structured interviews with two matched samples of Chinese SIE and native Caucasian British women. Double jeopardy and ethnic prominence offered the theoretical backdrop. Common gender-related career hindering factors emerged in both groups. However, no barriers due to ethnicity emerged for the Chinese SIE women, whilst their narrations revealed that the Chinese stereotype had rather facilitated their careers in the host country. Furthermore, they did not view self-expatriation as a particularly challenging endeavor. None of the two interpretative frameworks deployed, double jeopardy and ethnic prominence, could account for the findings. The study implies that the effects of ethnicity on self-expatriation experiences and outcomes may be contingent on SIEs' ethnic and cultural origins. In addition, the findings imply that women who self-expatriate to escape gendered opportunities in their home countries may face similar gender-related barriers in host countries.
该研究通过对两组配对样本（中国自发外派女性和英国本土白人女性）进行半结构化访谈，探讨了中国自发外派女性在英国职业发展的障碍。双重危险和族裔突出提供了理论背景。两组都出现了常见的与性别相关的职业阻碍因素。然而，中国自发外派女性没有出现因种族导致的障碍，而她们的叙述表明，中国刻板印象反而促进了她们在东道国的职业发展。此外，她们并不认为自我外派是一项特别具有挑战性的努力。所采用的双重危险和族裔突出这两个解释框架都无法解释这些发现。该研究表明，种族对外派经历和结果的影响可能取决于自发外派者的种族和文化背景。此外，研究结果表明，为逃避母国性别化机会而自我外派的女性在东道国可能面临类似的与性别相关的障碍。
