| Summary: | Despite social scientists' interest in globalization, mobility, the effects of colonialism, and the intercultural
situations that result, little attention has been devoted to expatriates as a contemporary transnational group.
This thesis is an enquiry into the ways eight individuals define themselves as expatriates, through their oral
narratives of life in Papua New Guinea. The paper focuses on expatriates' characterizations of themselves
in terms of: their communities; their relationships with locals; their status as foreigners in post-colonial
Papua New Guinea; arid their experiences of mobility. Set against social scientific notions of expatriates
and contemporary ideas of mobility and its relation to identity, expatriates' personal narratives indicate that
scholarly depictions are too simplistic to access contemporary expatriates or the complex situations in
which they live.
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