globally mobile

There’s a big difference between immigrants and refugees, and the one main factor that separates them is how they have come to leave their home country and find another.

As of 2020, 3.6% of the global population are migrants. This means that roughly 281 million people live in a different country than where they were born. That’s a significant number.  Humanity has been on the move since the beginning of time. […]

Third culture kids (TCKs) are people that have spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their parents’ culture. Their home, host countries and experiences become the third culture. This can be a lot for anyone under the […]

When I decided to travel to Kenya, I centered my documentary for Global Storytelling for Global Development around understanding the beauty of the Maasai culture. I couldn’t have been more excited about spending time with the people and learning about their traditions, rituals and daily life.

Among the globally mobile population, 20 percent of youth, ages 13-18, live with a mental health condition, reports the American Foreign Service Association. The book Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by Ruth Van Reken, David Pollock and Michael […]

The Culturs Global Multicultural Magazine celebrated the unveiling of its third print edition during its Launch Party on October 15, 2018, in Denver, Colorado. With countless globally mobile guests with hidden diversity, the room was filled with an in-between population. […]

Top experts and researchers in the globally mobile community will be headlining this year’s Families in Global Transition Conference to be held March 8-10, 2018 at the World Trade Center in The Hague, the Netherlands. The three prominent keynote speakers […]

What’s in a story? How do you tell your own? More importantly, why do you tell it at all? When Third Culture Kid (TCK) expert and educator Michael Pollock, son of one of the originators of TCK research – David Pollock, […]