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OverviewThe concept of Third Culture Kids is often used to describe people who have spent their childhood on the move, living in many different countries and languages. This book examines the hype, relevance and myths surrounding the concept while also redefining it within a broader study of transnationality to demonstrate the variety of stories involved. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fred Dervin , Kenneth A. LoparoPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.336kg ISBN: 9781137524652ISBN 10: 1137524650 Pages: 251 Publication Date: 08 July 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Saija Benjamin and Fred Dervin PART I: MULTI-MOBILITY - MIXING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL 1. Towards an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Diversity of 'Third Culture Kids'; Danau Tanu 2. Conceptualising Four Ecological Influences on Contemporary 'Third Culture Kids'; Donna Velliaris 3. Boundaries and the Restriction of Mobility within Expatriate International School Communities: A Case Study from Germany; Heather Meyer PART II: MIGRANT CHILDREN: BELONGING OR LONGING TO BELONG? 4. Non-Place Kids? Marc Augé's Non-Place and Third Culture Kids; Christian Triebel 5. NatioNILism: The Space of Nation-less Belonging; Joanna Yoshi Grote 6. Talking About 'Home': Immigrant Narratives as Context for TCKs; Nicolas Le Bigre 7. 'Third Culture Kids' As Serial Migrants' Children: Understanding Some of the Impacts of a Highly Mobile Transnational Upbringing; Gabrielle Désilets PART III: BEING AND BECOMING IN TRANSITION: RUPTURES, CHANGES, COPING 8. Being Connected: A Friendship Comparison among U.S., International, and Third Culture College Students; Kyoung Mi Choi, Melissa Luke and Janine M. Bernard 9. Experiences of Polish and American Third Culture Kids; Agnieszka Tr?bka SECTION IV: MOBILITY AND BEYOND 10. Adventuring and Vagrancy: Justifying Location-Independence; Päivi Kannisto Afterword; Richard PearceReviewsThe volume could easily be incorporated into migration studies courses that focus on the complexity of migration phenomena. All ten articles provide good avenues for classroom discussions, while motivating scholars to continue rebooting currently used terminology because `just as we find new ways to conceptualize ourselves in our ever-changing world, we will also find ways to recognize each other' ... . (Dorottya Nagy, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 7 (2), June, 2017) “The volume could easily be incorporated into migration studies courses that focus on the complexity of migration phenomena. All ten articles provide good avenues for classroom discussions, while motivating scholars to continue rebooting currently used terminology because ‘just as we find new ways to conceptualize ourselves in our ever-changing world, we will also find ways to recognize each other’ … .” (Dorottya Nagy, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 7 (2), June, 2017) The volume could easily be incorporated into migration studies courses that focus on the complexity of migration phenomena. All ten articles provide good avenues for classroom discussions, while motivating scholars to continue rebooting currently used terminology because 'just as we find new ways to conceptualize ourselves in our ever-changing world, we will also find ways to recognize each other' ... . (Dorottya Nagy, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 7 (2), June, 2017) Author InformationSaija Benjamin, University of Helsinki, Finland Janine M Bernard, Syracuse University, USA Kyoung Mi Choi, Youngstown State University, USA Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland Gabrielle Désilets, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique Centre Urbanisation, Cultures, Sociétés, Canada Yoshi Joanna Grote, Sussex University, UK Päivi Kannisto, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Nicolas Le Bigre, University of Aberdeen, UK Melissa Luke, Syracuse University, USA Heather Meyer, University of Southampton, UK Richard Pearce, International Education consultant, UK Danau Tanu, University of Western Australia, Australia Adnieszka Tr?bka, Jagiellonian University, Poland Christian Triebel, King's College London, UK Donna M Velliaris, Eynesbury Institute of Business and Technology, Australia Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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