Citizen of the World

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Chapter 7 in Curiocities:Where Complex Cities Meet Curious Minds, 2022, pp 117-132 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: I had an unusual childhood. My father worked for the Singapore Foreign Ministry, which meant that we lived in many different countries and cultures. This has certainly shaped my identity. Moving around so much, I was always on the outside, never truly belonging. This may cause some disorientation and can prove challenging for someone young in particular. But it also meant I developed a strong inner world and books and stories provided consistency. I could hold onto the narratives I created, even if everything else in my world was changing…

Keywords: Careers; Communications; Travel; Business Communication; Media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811265037_0007 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811265037_0007 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811265037_0007

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().