Definition of "expatriatism"

The traveler ventures into the world of exile and expatriatism, two terms that Edward Said defines in his essay "Reflections on Exile." Whereas exile connotes the negative, expatriatism carries more positive associations.

2006, Sara Steinert Borella, The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart: (en)gendering the Quest, Peter Lang, page 20

More important, her colonial expatriatism placed her in an extraordinary lineage of similarly positioned women writers – Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys – who had helped generate both “the modern” as a literary concept …

2009, Australian Research Professor Simon During, Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity, Routledge, page 78