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Books About the Cross-Cultural Experience for Adults

Compiled by World Family Education

Explore more about the experience of living in another culture and find resources to help with transitions, stress, and culture shock. The list below includes only nonfiction books in English; click on the book images to read more details and find links to Book Depository or Amazon for purchasing.

You can also explore other helpful pages at World Family Education:

Culture Shock, Transitions, Resilience

This Messy Mobile Life

Culture Shock

a portable identity

the psychology of culture shock

at home in the world

the emotionally resilient expat

transitions

Raising a Family Internationally & Third Culture Kids

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Third-Culture-Kids-Gift-Care/dp/919854800X/" style="color: #ffffff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>THIRD CULTURE KIDS: A GIFT TO CARE FOR</strong><br>By Ulrika Ernvik <br>Third Culture Kids are Global Nomads who have moved in between cultures many times and therefore are a part of many cultures. Their beauty and challenge in life is to integrate and embrace all their experiences into a life story that reflects who they are.</a>

the worlds within

third culture kids

save passage

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Home-Surely-Parents-Singaporean-ebook/dp/B07RGC14JM" style="color: #ffffff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>THIS IS HOME, SURELY?</strong><br><em>By Sharon Tan and David Tan</em><br>An increasing number of Singaporean families are living overseas for various reasons, and their children are growing up as TCKs. </a>

misunderstood

emotional resilience

<a href="https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=5487&awinaffid=799097&clickref=25+Activities+to+Help+Kids&ued=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookdepository.com%2F25-Activities-Help-Kids-Connect-Reflect--Thrive-Around-the-World-Leah-Moorefield-Evans-Jodi-Harris-Msw%2F9781985388857%2F" style="color: #ffffff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>KIDS ON THE MOVE<br></strong><em>By Leah Moorefield Evans and Jodi Harris, MSW</em><br>Any globally mobile kid will tell you it's not just the suitcases that get heavy with each move. With these 25 invaluable activities, young people learn to turn toward what they're experiencing and to seek to understand what they find there, so that a life lived between worlds becomes truly a life of opportunity. </a>

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Generation-Healthy-Third-Culture/dp/B085RSFGJ8/" style="color: #ffffff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>RAISING UP A GENERATION OF HEALTHY THIRD CULTURE KIDS</strong><br> <em>By Lauren Wells</em><br>While we cannot know all our TCKs will go through, we can take a giant step forward by learning how to multiply the benefits of a global life and conversely pay attention to the challenges that can become stumbling blocks to healthy development. If you are working with, raising, or love third culture kids from any part of the globe, this book will give you practical ways to be proactive about the way you raise up third culture kids.</a>

Returning to Your Home Culture

the art of coming home

relaunch roadmap

Returning Well

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