Migration, Diversity, and Education [electronic resource] : Beyond Third Culture Kids /
Benjamin, Saija.editor.
Dervin, Fred.editor.
The 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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Multi-Mobility: Mixing the Global and the Local; 1 Toward an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Diversity of "Third Culture Kids"; 2 Conceptualizing Four Ecological Influences on Contemporary "Third Culture Kids"; 3 Boundaries and the Restriction of Mobility within International School Communities: A Case Study from Germany; Section II: Migrant Children: Belonging or Longing to Belong?; 4 Non-Place Kids? Marc Augé's Non-Place and Third Culture Kids
5 NatioNILism: The Space of Nation-Less Belonging6 Talking about "Home": Immigrant Narratives as Context for TCKs; 7 "Third Culture Kids" as Serial Migrants' Children: Understanding Some of the Impacts of a Highly Mobile Transnational Upbringing; Section III: Being and Becoming in Transition: Ruptures, Changes, Coping; 8 Being Connected: A Friendship Comparison among U.S., International, and Third Culture College Students; 9 Experiences of Polish and American Third Culture Kids in a Comparative Perspective; Section IV: Mobility and Beyond
10 Adventuring and Vagrancy: Justifying Location-IndependenceAfterword; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
The 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.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
International education .
Comparative education.
Ethnology.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Migration.
International and Comparative Education.
Cultural Anthropology.
Educational Policy and Politics.