Writing out of limbo
Subtitle: international childhoods, global nomads and third culture kids
By: edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel ; with Faith Eidse and Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781443833608
Subjects: Affiliation (Psychology); Globalization; Parents; Attitudes; Social interaction in children; Intercultural communication; Employment; Children; Identity (Philosophical concept); Social interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel; title: pt.1. Foundations. Third culture kids / Ruth Hill Useem and Richard D. Downie ; Cross-cultural kids : the new prototype / Ruth E. Van Reken ; Raised in the margin of the mosaic : global nomads balance worlds within / Norma M. McCaig ; Explaining differences : TCKs and other CCKs, American and Japanese TCKs / Ann Baker Cottrell; title: pt. 2. Reflections. Finding home : John Liang ; Reframing / Faith Eidse ; Jubilee / Charity Schellenberg ; The colors and culture of home / Nancy Miller Dimmock ; A canary sings on the road to Athens / Kathleen Daniel ; Artist in transit : a fusion of art and identity / Cathleen Hadley ; Returning to my parents' foreign "home" / Emily G. Hervey ; Continental shifts / Anna Maria Moore ; Outsider / Nina Sichel; title: pt. 3. Explorations. Lemonade for the Gringa : advice for and from teenaged global nomads / Patricia Linderman ; Vignettes from another perspective : when cultural hierarchies matter at an international school / Danau Tanu ; The religious lives of adult missionary kids / Nancy Henderson-James ; Echoes of loss : long-term grief and adaptation among third culture kids / Kathleen R. Gilbert and Rebecca J. Gilbert ; Four third culture kids : one portrait / Laila Plamondon ; Memory, language, and identity : the search for self / Liliana Meneses ; Finnish expatriate families and their children : a complementary viewpoint / Anu Warinowski ; Domestic students or foreign? : when U.S.-global nomads return "home" to college / Bruce La Brack ; Global nomads : cultural bridges for the future / Alice Shu-Hsien Wu; title: pt. 4. Reconfigurations. Documenting mobility / Maureen A. Burns ; Khartoum Romeo, Delhi Juliet / Greg Clinton ; "I know who I am" / Leyla Rouhi ; The stranger self : a pattern in narrative / Elaine Neil Orr ; On Jean Rhys, Barbara Kingsolver, and myself : reflections on a problem that has no set name / Gene H. Bell-Villada ; Colonial mothers and cosmopolitan third culture kids : Doris Lessing's Under my skin / Alice Ridout ; Checked baggage : writing Unpacked / Elizabeth Liang ; On making BRATS / Donna Musil; title: pt. 5. End paper. Le français / Maya Goldstein Evans.