Repatriation advice for a happy return

5 tips to help your repatriation For many families, the choice to move their family’s lives overseas turns out to be one of the best they have made.

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3 secrets to a successful repatriation

Repatriating is going home? So, you’re going home! After so many years abroad, you’re finally returning home. Congratulations! Wait, home?? What is this ‘home’? What are the challenges

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Moving back home to Australia?

Preparing to move back to Australia Are you thinking of moving back to Australia? You may have been born and raised there but if you’ve lived abroad for

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Planning to move back home

Plan to repatriate Moving back to your home country isn’t as easy as you’d expect. People have repeatedly told me that repatriation shock, or reverse culture shock, is

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Why I am scared to go back to America

Living the overseas dream By Jillian Rogers I admit it. I really wasn’t all that afraid to pack my entire life, my family’s lives, and all our memories, into

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An expat child has many layers of influence

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory This was mentioned in Rianne Cornelisse’s paper about how expat children adapt when returning home. What is the theory of Bronfenbrenner all about? Model

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How an expat child experiences life in their home country

Moving home after living overseas as a child In response to the articles about of self-harm in TCKs and expat teens, Rianne Cornelisse wrote the succinct and perceptive

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Can you survive reverse culture shock?

How repatriation affects you Everybody knows about experiencing culture shock when you visit a country with different customs, cuisine or language. But sometimes the worst culture shock of

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Repatriation and the reality of going home

Repatriation can be more difficult than expatriation Having successfully moved a family abroad, the idea of the return journey can seem like a relatively straightforward one. It is

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An unsettled but very happy Third Culture Kid: Part 2

A TCK life – part 2 After her nomadic upbringing described in the previous post, it’s time for Cecilia to move back to her ‘home’ country. Repatriation Cecilia

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