Place identity construction of Third Culture Kids: Eliciting voices of children with high mobility lifestyle

Lijadi, Anastasia Aldelina; Schalkwyk, Gertina J. van

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.015

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“…Social media applications offer distinct new lines of identity exploration and expression in a context largely disparate to that of previous generations (Lijadi & Schalkwyk, 2017). Scholars now argue online environments such as social media are a key functional context for healthy developmental tasks related to identity development (boyd, 2014; Haimson, 2018).…”

Section: Lgbtq+ Identity Management and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development

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Hobman

Bell

2019

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Social media provides Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) youth with daily access to a broader sociocultural dialogue that may shape narrative identity development. Through in-depth narrative interviews, this study sought to understand the lived experiences of 11 LGBTQ+ undergraduates ( age range = 19-23) building narrative identities in the cultural context of social media and the role of social media within this process. Interviews were analyzed using an interpretative, individual analysis of personal stories. These experiences were then compared and contrasted through thematic analysis to identify four shared narrative themes. Narratives of merging safe spaces highlight how LGBTQ+ youth now have regular access to safe environments online/offline which facilitate more secure identity development. Narratives of external identity alignment describe social media as a tool for LGBTQ+ youth to seek out identities that match their preexisting sense of self. Narratives of multiple context-based identities encapsulate how adolescents’ identity markers are multiple and invoked in a context-dependent manner. Finally, narratives of individuality and autonomy characterize how LGBTQ+ youth perceive themselves as highly individualized members of a wider community. These findings highlight the complex role social media plays within LGBTQ+ youth identity development. The implications are discussed within.

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Section: Lgbtq+ Identity Management and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development

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Hobman

Bell

2019

Journal of Adolescent Research

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“…In looking specifically at the formation of (global) communities, the cartoons highlight the importance of friendship networks to the international school pupils. This resonates with research on Third Culture Kids (TCK)-an identity marker popularised in psychology for children who have experienced frequent global mobility0 F 1 (Pollock and Van Reken, 2009;Lijadi and Van Schalkwyk, 2017). Due to their frequent global mobility, this group of youth migrants are seen not to have traditional place-based belonging, something which is seen as an alienating experience (see below on grief).…”

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Figures of the global: Mobility journeys of international school pupils

Cranston

2020

Population Space and Place

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Existing accounts of global youth mobility frame this as an experience that is out of ordinary, through which young people acquire social and cultural capital. This paper focuses instead on how young people in international schools in England understand their experiences of global mobility. It utilises an innovative methodology where participants were asked to design cartoons about global citizenship. Bringing together literatures on journeys and becomings, the paper examines how the global is represented by young people in the cartoons through scenes and characters. By looking at how the characters interact with scenes and other characters, the paper argues that these act as representations of space–time in international school pupils' global mobility journeys. Through this, the paper demonstrates how this group of mobile young people represent global mobility as a normal experience, which raises wider geographical questions about the intersections between youth and mobility.

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“…As a consequence, the informants of this study reflect on what home means to them. As TCKs engage ‘in a cloud of uncertainty in the process of homemaking’ (Lijadi and van Schalkwyk, 2017: 126), belonging can seem like a notion that is both fleeting and forced, here illustrated by Karen, aged 26:I wonder what it has done to me that I don’t really know the meaning of a home. I continued the moving circus on my own.…”

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The assumption of privilege? Expectations on emotions when growing up in the Norwegian Foreign Service

Bjørnsen

2019

Childhood

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Based on 42 autobiographies of former Norwegian Foreign Service children, this article aims to highlight how cultural narratives of global elite migration can intersect with local family emotion-regulation practices and enter into the body of a Third Culture Kid’s experience. It asks how a mismatch between emotions as culturally expected and emotions as experienced affected them. Narrative analysis showed how the children interpreted cultural symbols into feeling-rules that created an emotional estrangement towards their caregivers as well as within themselves.

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Place identity construction of Third Culture Kids: Eliciting voices of children with high mobility lifestyle

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development

“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development

Figures of the global: Mobility journeys of international school pupils

The assumption of privilege? Expectations on emotions when growing up in the Norwegian Foreign Service

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