Denizen | for third culture kids

When I started Denizen, I never expected the amount of emails I would receive from readers who had been touched [...]

When Kendra Mirasol and Charisse Kosova of IOR Global Services noticed more minority women going abroad, they wondered if minority [...]

Olympic contenders Allison, Cathy and Chris Reed are all siblings — but they are competing for two different countries.
The Reed [...]

Massachusetts Democrats are in danger of losing late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat to the GOP on Tuesday, thereby surrendering their [...]

In the wake of the Haiti earthquake crisis, the American Red Cross posted information about the U.S. State Department’s efforts [...]

In the tearful process of leaving South Korea after graduating from high school, I can distinctly remember a good friend [...]

It is 5 a.m. and I am sitting in a café at Frankfurt International Airport waiting for a flight that [...]

“Holy shit, you’re not black?” the patient exclaimed as he examined me from head to toe. My partner and the two police officers burst out laughing. “No sir, I’m more of a twinkie,” I said.

I decided to go back to my heart-home. Permanently. Not as a transient expatriate, but as a resident, a contributing member of the local society.

I’ve avoided doing this for so long and for good reason.
But here I am, saying goodbye at an airport, breaking [...]

From friends to food, weddings are a life event where TCKs can attempt to bring together all aspects of our global lives.

How would you want to raise your kids? Spare them the pain of moving, or give them the gift of [...]

In four and a half weeks, they covered 6,400 miles and six countries on board “Clutch,” their trusty 12-year-old Peuguot 106, seeing England, France, Spain, Morocco, Senegal and Mali.

“You know Entourage? I was basically Lloyd,” he laughs. After eight months of what he describes as a “Devil-Wears-Prada existence,” he now works as the assistant to the executive producer of ‘Glee’

Cordelia Ross spent part of last year volunteering at the Stars & Rain Education Institute for Autism in Beijing. Half-Taiwanese and half-American, Ross was raised in Singapore.

Mean Girls won’t win any Oscars, but peel away the glossy angst, and it is sociologically brilliant. The movie follows [...]

One evening shortly after my sister returned from college, the family was sitting around the dinner table.
“I think I’m getting [...]

Goddamn my American accent. “You’re from Singapore?” the girl sneered in her all-too-real Singaporean accent. “Born and bred?” I know I’m not the only one who does a “little dance of white lies” when asked where I’m from.