Always Home
Portegies-Zwart is part of a burgeoning community of nomadic kids who are growing up globally. Called third-culture kids–or TCKs–these children of diplomats, aid workers, missionaries, military personnel, journalists, academics and business executives are being raised in a culture that lies somewhere between their parents’ native one (the first culture) and that of the country where they are based (the second culture). Unlike immigrant children, they have no intention of staying long in the host country; expat families are transferred as often as every two years....