Adult third culture kids: HRD challenges and opportunities

@article{Bonebright2010AdultTC,
  title={Adult third culture kids: HRD challenges and opportunities},
  author={Denise A. Bonebright},
  journal={Human Resource Development International},
  year={2010},
  volume={13},
  pages={351 - 359}
}
Third Culture Kids (TCKs) are children who travel with expatriate parents and spend significant portions of their growing years in cultures other than their passport cultures. Such children internalize portions of both the home culture and the host culture, building a new cultural identity that reflects all their experiences without developing a sense of belonging to any single culture. TCKs often have more in common with each other than with peers raised in either their home or host cultures… 
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