Katherine Lung: TCK dance and film project
Katherine Lung’s senior dance project incorporates Third Culture Kid interviews into the soundscape. She needs your help! Please make a video answering the questions in this post.
Katherine Lung’s senior dance project incorporates Third Culture Kid interviews into the soundscape. She needs your help! Please make a video answering the questions in this post.
Finding home for a TCK can be a lifelong journey. I know that other global cities that could arguably be coined “the best TCK city,” but for me, it’s New York…
How would you want to raise your kids? Spare them the pain of moving, or give them the gift of travel? I’ve always wondered what it would be like, to raise TCK children of my own.
Just when you thought the quota, the lottery system, the very expensive application costs, and the uber-confusing legal procedures made getting an H-1B visa difficult enough—now there’s more. The recently-passed economic stimulus bill now contains restrictions aimed at deterring companies that receive bailout money from hiring H-1B workers. Bottom line: it’s going to take a hell of a lot more luck for non-Americans to get a job here. As the country’s unemployment rate steadily increases, the government is becoming more and more protective of its national workforce, and, as a result, more wary of foreign workers. In fact, the initial proposal, by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), planned to bar companies that receive bailout funds from hiring any H-1B workers. The current amendment is a little softer—it just makes it very difficult to hire them. Supporters of the bill insist that, with the current plethora of laid-off workers, companies should be able to easily find the kind of talent they’d find in foreign workers. Opponents, however, like the American Immigration Lawyers Association …