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+DIALOGUE2010 Spring podcast "Mapping the hybrid life"+

Cultural jet lag

“Iranian by birth, French by citizenship and American by residence” is how my grandfather encapsulated 10-year old me. What does that make my [...]

Push-me pull-you loyalty

A British-born woman of mixed ethnicity is torn between loyalties to her country of birth and others her family is tied [...]

Sink or swim

Easy answers to complex cultural questions can’t prepare an American for her submersive role as member of a Kurdish tribe by [...]

Strategic love

If marriage is the smallest unit of a community, then cross-cultural couples are ambassadors, peace-makers, and [...]

The twinge of heritage

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago [...]

Blooming behind closed doors...

Expat Harem — the concept of virtual peers tied together by common cultural interests, and the new ExpatHarem.com site — embodies today’s location-independent social [...]