Foreign Service Reading List
Hidden Immigrants: Legacies of Growing Up Abroad
By Linda G. Bell
What happens when TCKs, or Third Culture Kids, grow up and become Adult TCKs? In Hidden Immigrants, the author explores the long term impact of an internationally mobile childhood through the words of 13 Adult TCKs. Topically organized, it explores the need for roots, adjusting to a home country, marriage, career choices, the pleasure of pain caused by many international moves, things that helped or hindered, and evaluations and wishes.
Endorsements by such notable practitioners as Dr. Ruth Useem, David Pollock (TCK Interact), Norma M. McCaig (Global Nomads International), Barbara F. Schaetti (Transition Dynamics), and Kay Branaman Eakin (Foreign Service Youth Foundation) may be found on the author's web page.