TCK resources and reading

Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, by David C. Pollock and Ruth Van Reken, Intercultural Press

Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World, Robin Pascoe

Safe Passage: How Mobility Affects People and What International Schools Should do About It, Douglas Ota, Summertime

Media:

BBC:

With mounting globalization, and workers jumping from one country to the next, where do expat kids call home?

By Kate Mayberry 11/2016

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161117-third-culture-kids-citizens-of-everywhere-and-nowhere

NYTimes:

Finding a Place for Third-Culture Kids in the Culture: In the HBO series, the filmmaker Luca Guadadnino revisits a timeless yet timely question: What does it mean to be from everywhere and nowhere at once? 

By, Noor Brara, 9/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/t-magazine/luca-guadagnino-third-culture-kids.html

Third Culture Kids Make Ideal Global Citizens

https://diplomaticacademy.us/2022/02/06/third-culture-kids/

Resource for TCK/ CCK descriptions, challenges, traits:

https://www.crossculturalkid.org/who-are-cross-cultural-kids/

More on stages of transition and how to support the process:

http://www.isdcounselling.org/uploads/1/0/6/2/10624989/transitions_and_third_culture_kids.pdf

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