We've been thinking about the meaning of Home and what constitutes Home in our mobile world. The problem is crystallized in an article today by Habibul Haque Khondker in the Daily Star.

"Globalisation has many casualties. Who is a resident and who is a non-resident has been blurred by globalisation.

"Once someone asked Professor Saskia Sassen, a prominent author on the subject of globalisation, where she lived. She answered: 'While not on a plane, I live in Chicago.' Like Sassen, many in this globalised world have become footloose, unanchored...

"The editor of the newspaper you are reading left a cushy job with Unesco (imagine all the great postings in Paris, New York, Bangkok, and the perks) and returned to Dhaka where one of the avocations of a journalist has become facing baseless law suits or threats. And there are other young journalists who left promising overseas careers (even legal career in US) to return to Bangladesh. They were not targeted by any government department. They did it on their own. Let's say that they missed home-cooked food.

"One young woman... was teaching in a college in U.S. One day she saw the college president to tell him that she was quitting to return to Dhaka. The president could not believe it, but she meant what she had said. I can give a long list of people who could break the temptation of overseas living and returned home. Others stayed but their hearts were in Bangladesh, their bodies were overseas. As globalisation deepens, people will live in multiple localities. And they will have multiple jobs. A friend of fine, a Kolkata-born economist educated in US has worked his way up to be a professor in a mid-sized U.S. university and now helping set up a private university in Bangladesh (Chittagong) using his experience of setting up one in Venezuela.

"The life of Mr. Carlos Ghosn who is an NRB (non-resident Brazilian) illustrates the point most eloquently. He is the CEO of Renault, which he turned from a loss-making to a profit-making company. His reputation spread. He was hired by Nissan as CEO but he did not quit his French job. He is CEO of two companies in two different parts of the world at the same time and spends a lot of time commuting between Paris and Tokyo."

This is a topic we will be exploring this year at CEOs for Cities. If you have special interest in the research, contact me at ccoletta@ceosforcities.org.

uk employment law solicitors, January 5, 2008

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