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Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2023 , Article)
Qatar’s development is intertwined with migration, resulting in the native population forming a minority. Zooming in on the academic world, which is in the midst of reform processes, we investigate the impact of the expat ...
Beyond dichotomies: a female Qatari’s negotiation of gender and professional identity
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Equinox Publishing Ltd
, 2022 , Article)
Most research on gender in the Middle Eastern workplace treats gender identities in relation to the polarity of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’. Although some of these studies take a critical perspective, they largely ignore ...
Macro-Structural Change in Relation to Micro-Discursive Storytelling: Qatari Nationality as a Resource for the Construction of Professional Identity
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international network Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
, 2023 , Article)
Combining insights from the sociology of education and from discourse-based work on identities within contexts of organizational change, we aim to tease out how top- down structural changes can be related to micro-discursive ...
“Why not the thoub and the abaya?” An interactional sociolinguistic approach to the interplay between nationality, gender, and professional identity in the Qatari academic workplace
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Edinburgh University Press
, 2024 , Article)
Although identity is recognized as an important topic in Arabic sociolinguistics, little attention has been paid to how major structural changes impact different forms of identity, especially in professional and workplace ...