Migration, diversity, and education
Subtitle: beyond third culture kids
By: edited by Saija Benjamin and Fred Dervin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137524652
Subjects: Third-culture children; EDUCATION / Multicultural Education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; Case studies; Social conditions; Social interaction in children; Education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "The existing literature and numerous webpages dealing with Third Culture Kids often appear to be overenthusiastic about the concept. TCKs have spent their childhood on the move, living in many different countries and languages. Researchers, practitioners and TCKs themselves have created an essentialized image of TCKs, even though, in essence, these individuals are just migrants in special circumstances. This book proposes to think otherwise and to review the ideologies and myths behind this construct. With contributors from different parts of the world and from various disciplines, the origins of the term TCKs, its development and the current debates around it are discussed, beyond the current and somewhat stagnant discourses about these individuals. The key concepts associated with Third Culture Kids are also revisited. This volume represents a timely, authoritative and alternative way of rethinking and reimagining the impact of mobility"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; 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 Auge'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 Desilets 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 TrabkaSECTION IV: MOBILITY AND BEYOND 10. Adventuring and Vagrancy: Justifying Location-Independence; Paivi Kannisto Afterword; Richard Pearce.