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+++IST2010 web-carnival March city+SCAPES+++

+DIALOGUE2010 Spring podcast "Mapping the hybrid life"+

Floating and free-falling

They say your shoes will eventually fit if you keep wearing them. This Japanese Third Culture Kid tried to live his life like [...]

Winter of our re-content

Make stylish clothing for the Gypsy jet set, or feed the soul? A fashion designer redesigns herself with the help of a 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 [...]

Inside outsider

When a longtime expat in Prague takes a photo course she cannot pretend to be Czech — and gains respect for the tourists which throng her city’s [...]

Senso unico

A serial expat reflects on how her expatriatism has changed through place, and over [...]

How do you say...me?

A Brit in the Netherlands finds a foreign language is a hurdle to being true to herself in her relationships with locals, family and [...]

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 [...]

I dream of GenY

When birth year alone means a Baby Boomer would always occupy an entry-level position in her cultural generation, GenY brings the status quo rebellion she [...]

Change of direction

A fashion designer leaves the exploitation [...]

A new lyricism

An American in China discovers her new expat persona — lyrical, and feisty — offers the freedom to redefine who she is and what she wants to [...]