Third Culture Kids’ identity involves negotiation, cultural multiplicity, and otherness from their passport country, not confusion but a poor fit with conventional identity constructs.

Evidence

Growing Up as a Third Culture Kid and Its Impact on Identity and Belonging (ResearchGate / Counselling Psychology Review)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: A person’s identity is deeply tied to their birthplace. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 44; Immigrants do not shed their former identity or cultural attachment with their home country despite expectations they develop local identity and belonging. — Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity; A Third Culture Kid’s identity is built on underlying relationships with people around her, not the place she lives in. — Acquiring the Identity of a Third Culture Kid (+1 more)

Related

• A Third Culture Kid’s identity is built on underlying relationships with people around her, not the place she lives in. (similarity 0.90)
• TCK identity is unconventional, not defined by geophysical places or nationality, race, ethnicity, language, or religion, but by relational bonds from shared transitory cultural experiences. (similarity 0.86)
• TCKs define belonging more through personal relationships than geographic locations, so their sense of belonging is about ‘who’ rather than ‘where’ they are from. (similarity 0.85)
• Immigrants do not shed their former identity or cultural attachment with their home country despite expectations they develop local identity and belonging. (similarity 0.84)