Migration, Diversity, and Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Saija Benjamin, Fred Dervin

      Pages 1-10

3. Multi-Mobility: Mixing the Global and the Local

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Toward an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Diversity of “Third Culture Kids”

      • Danau Tanu

      Pages 13-35

   3. Conceptualizing Four Ecological Influences on Contemporary ‘Third Culture Kids”

      • Donna Velliaris

      Pages 36-58

   4. Boundaries and the Restriction of Mobility within International School Communities: A Case Study from Germany

      • Heather Meyer

      Pages 59-83

4. Migrant Children: Belonging or Longing to Belong?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Non-Place Kids? Marc Augé’s Non-Place and Third Culture Kids

      • Christian Triebel

      Pages 87-101

   3. NatioNILism: The Space of Nation-Less Belonging

      • Joanna Yoshi Grote

      Pages 102-120

   4. Talking about “Home”: Immigrant Narratives as Context for TCKs

      • Nicolas Le Bigre

      Pages 121-142

   5. ‘Third Culture Kids’ as Serial Migrants’ Children: Understanding Some of the Impacts of a Highly Mobile Transnational Upbringing

      • Gabrielle Désilets

      Pages 143-162

5. Being and Becoming in Transition: Ruptures, Changes, Coping

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Being Connected: A Friendship Comparison among U.S., International, and Third Culture College Students

      • Kyoung Mi Choi, Melissa Luke, Janine M. Bernard

      Pages 165-186

   3. Experiences of Polish and American Third Culture Kids in a Comparative Perspective

      • Agnieszka Trąbka

      Pages 187-208

6. Mobility and Beyond

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Adventuring and Vagrancy: Justifying Location-Independence

      • Päivi Kannisto

      Pages 211-232

   3. Afterword

      • Richard Pearce

      Pages 233-248

7. Correction to: Talking about “Home”: Immigrant Narratives as Context for TCKs

   • Nicolas Le Bigre

   Pages C1-C1

8. Back Matter

   Pages 249-251

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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.

• Third Culture Kids
• mobility
• migration
• identity
• culture
• multilingualism
• education
• expatriation
• belonging
• migrants
• school

“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)

• University of Helsinki, Finland

  Saija Benjamin, Fred Dervin

Saija 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

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