Tag: expatriate families
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Challenges, Changes, and Transition
Written for Headington Institute (see original article here) Introduction Living and working across international borders is often an exciting, enriching, and eye-opening experience. Engaging with cultures outside of our heritage culture challenges our norms, beliefs, and value systems. It exposes us to a myriad of new human experiences including new currency, languages, gestures, ways of…
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Global identity: The recursive loop
Dr. Rajeswari Natrajan-Tyagi, my mentor-esteemed colleague and friend, and I recently gave a one hour presentation on the topic of parenting in immigrant families to a parent teacher student association (PTSA) in a Southern Californian community. These are parents with middle school aged children. We shared our experiences being immigrants; she, as a recent immigrant…
JENNIFER T. YOUNG, PSY.D. 