Growing Up in Transit

The Politics of Belonging at an International School
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-795-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanu, Danau

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tanu, Danau
Danau Tanu is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia.