Growing Up in Transit The Politics of Belonging at an International School [Hardcover]

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.

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Foreword
Fazal Rizvi

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction:Unpacking Third Culture Kids

Chapter 1.Being International
Chapter 2.The Power of English(
Chapter 3.Living in Disneyland(
Chapter 4.Chasing Cosmopolitan Capital
Chapter 5.The Politics of Hanging out
(Chapter 6.Invisible Diversity(
Chapter 7.Race and Romance
Chapter 8.Whose United Nations Day?

Conclusion:Transnational Youth

References
Index

This ethnographic study offers a valuable correction to our understandings of the third culture kid phenomenon.? Huon Wardle, Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews

This book offers profound insights on how class and race can play out among globally mobile children. I highly recommend it.? Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author,Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

Danau Tanuis an Honorary Research Fellow atlc-