Author Description

Introduction / Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel -- 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 -- 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 --^ 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 --^ 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: Dor