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Growing Up in Transit - The Politics of Belonging at an International School (Paperback)
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Growing Up in Transit - The Politics of Belonging at an International School (Paperback)
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"[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and
migration....[and] food for thought also for scholars studying
migration in less privileged contexts."-Social Anthropology In this
compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu
argues that the international schools they attend promote an
ideology of being "international" that is Eurocentric. Despite the
cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape
popularity, friendships, and romance on campus. By going back to
high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnational youth, often
called "Third Culture Kids", to present their struggles with
identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. The
result is the first engaging, anthropological critique of the way
Western-style cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural
capital to reproduce global socio-cultural inequalities. From the
introduction: When I first went back to high school at
thirty-something, I wanted to write a book about people who live in
multiple countries as children and grow up into adults addicted to
migrating. I wanted to write about people like Anne-Sophie Bolon
who are popularly referred to as "Third Culture Kids" or "global
nomads." ... I wanted to probe the contradiction between the
celebrated image of "global citizens" and the economic privilege
that makes their mobile lifestyle possible. From a personal angle,
I was interested in exploring the voices among this population that
had yet to be heard (particularly the voices of those of Asian
descent) by documenting the persistence of culture, race, and
language in defining social relations even among self-proclaimed
cosmopolitan youth.
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