#4077. Growing up (un)bounded: globalization, mobility and belonging among Korean third culture kids

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This study speaks to the larger question of how growing up with mobility that spans tensions between multiple communities across the globe influences one’s construction of identity and belonging. In this paper, I examine how young adults who have been living in multiple countries in their formative years- most prominently referred to as Third Culture Kids -reflect upon their transnational life trajectories. My analyses suggest that Third Culture Kids foregrounded multilingual competence and diversity in articulating their mobile upbringing. This study contributes to the field by unsettling the automatic collapse of belonging with national citizenship. With the growing number of transnational communities that mobilize funds of knowledge from heterogenic resources across the globe, this study highlights the need for educators to incorporate students’ funds of knowledge into language and literacy curriculum.
Keywords:
identity and belonging; mobile upbringing; multilingualism; Third culture kids

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