The Incomplete American. Review of Gene Bell-Villada's <em>Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics</em> (University of Mississippi Press, 2005.)

Resumen

Gene Bell-Villada’s Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics is a vital addition to Globalization Studies, as well as to an emergent and lesser known body of literature on American kids raised outside of the United States. These kids, known as ThirdCulture Kids (TCKs), grow up between cultures without being able to fully claim ownership over any of them. The children of missionaries, diplomats, military personnel and transnational business people, these cosmopolitans are saturated in the culture and language of the host countries in which they are raised while maintaining an imaginary and often confused connection to their American nationality.