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Expats, Tourists and “Matter out of Place”

May 10, 2018August 20, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / 3 Comments

Using Mary Douglas's notion of matter out of place, I posit that when the government changed the law and increased their negative rhetoric about foreign workers, people like me got switched to a new category in the collective consciousness: from ‘just another member of the employment landscape’, to ‘imminent threat to the locals' jobs’.

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