Hi Everyone, I hope you enjoyed a wonderful fun-filled weekend! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...
Registration Now Open For FIGT (Families in Global Transition) Conference, March 2012, Washington
http://www.figt.org/
Expat Entrepreneur Interview:
Expat Life Coach John Falchetto talks to Mara Vaughan (Egypt)
http://bit.ly/slgfUc
Expat Life: What’s a Nice Protestant Girl Doing in this Place?
http://bit.ly/vEYSUL
How Air Pollution Impacts Expat Kids
http://bit.ly/tTLl9i
Feeling Negative Abroad?
Read Our Expat Women October Confession
http://bit.ly/ohAty9
British Expats Refusing To Go Home:
15% Call Off Repatriation Plans
http://bit.ly/t0AUwp
Strategies for a UN Job Search (Part 2):
Research the Duty Stations (Passport Career Blog)
http://bit.ly/rVKunE
Luxury Clinic Sued After Australian Expat Left Blinded in One Eye (Moscow Times)
http://bit.ly/se8VTM
Can You Relate To This 1955 Philip Larkin Poem Title?
"The Importance of Being Elsewhere"
http://bit.ly/uim9nw
British Expat Sets Up A Theater Studio In Moscow (Video)
http://bit.ly/u8ZjfR
Plus, a quote that I liked this past week:
"If you're OK out of your comfort zone... you're not out of your comfort zone." by @lesmckeown (thanks @JohnFalchetto for sharing)
And finally, news from @LonelyPlanet's Twitter feed:
"Iceland is the top country destination as voted by Lonely Planet travellers for 2012!"
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Twitter Links? (October 30-31 edition)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Twitter Links? (October 25-26 edition)
Hi Everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful week! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...
Excellent Article About Moving Abroad and/or Moving Back Home - on Matador Network
http://bit.ly/ods96E
"Hired in Shanghai: How I Did It"
Great Post For Expats (or Anyone) Looking for Work
http://bit.ly/noRP7P
Challenges Faced By Expat Women - via Escape From America Magazine
http://bit.ly/nYBlzu
Expat Divorce A Tricky Affair
http://bit.ly/qeIspv
Career Break Travel Myths - via Lonely Planet
http://bit.ly/qwNeZQ
Expat Coach Directory
http://bit.ly/oBXwGS
Expats: Want To Win an IPAD2? Tell The UK Telegraph Expat Your Favourite British Place Abroad
http://bit.ly/p54uCE
Digging Deep: 'Earthscraper' Building To Plunge 300m Underground In Mexico City
http://bit.ly/uyDBq9
Strategies For a UN Job Search - on Passport Career
http://bit.ly/qXsb3Y
Reminder: David Pollock Scholarship Applications for Families in Global Transition (FIGT) Conference (March 2012) Due December
http://bit.ly/pWB3N3
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Twitter Links? (October 12-13 edition)
Hi Everyone, I hope you are having a sensational week! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...
Love it! Expat Creative Solution For When Locals Stare At Foreigners
"'You Lookin' At Me? Fake Book"
http://bit.ly/o10wZn
Expat Entrepreneurs Sowing Seeds of Success Abroad
bit.ly/raazI2
27 Tips For First Time Expats
http://bit.ly/oEqfqb
Thailand Overtakes Bahrain As "Best Expat Destination" In HSBC Explorer Survey Results
http://bit.ly/r3L7YX
Want To See A Preview Of HSBC 2011 Expat Explorer Survey Results?
(Full Report Available November)
http://bit.ly/mRDqWG
10 Tips for Successful Expat Living: Flashback
http://bit.ly/n4g6Vo
"Why Aren’t Gulf Expats Saving Any Money?"
http://tgr.ph/rcuWxR
Hats Off To Becky! “From Career Breaker to Expat”
http://bit.ly/qL0zkG
5 Expat Types You May Meet When Living Overseas
http://bit.ly/pvZiY3
"Julia Child's Curiosity About French Cuisine Led To A Displaced Life"
http://bit.ly/r0ylvp
7 Deadly Sins of Expats and Social Media
http://bit.ly/mToamS
…And finally, a great reminder for repatriates! "Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." Doug Ivester (quoted on Twitter by @GreatestQuotes)
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Domestic Violence in Expat Communities
Hi Everyone, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we wanted to make sure you are aware of an important resource, should you find yourself in need of help. While leaving an abusive relationship is challenging for any woman, for women living abroad, the challenges may seem insurmountable.
The Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center works with abused American women and their children in foreign countries to provide domestic violence and child abuse advocacy, resources and tools so that they can navigate the complicated jurisdictional, legal and social international landscapes, to be able to live their lives free of abuse either in the foreign country or back in the United States. Both civilian and military populations are served. (Unfortunately they are only resourced to serve Americans, but non-American expats are being abused can refer to this website and/or call to ask the AODVCC if there are any other possible resources in their current local area.)
Advocates and case managers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week internationally toll free. First dial the AT&T USADirect access number for the country you are in. You can find the access number for the country you are in here. After dialing the access code please enter our phone number: 866-USWOMEN (879-6636) after the prompt. For more information please visit www.866uswomen.org.
Warning: Please remember that your emails and website searches can be tracked from your computer. If you fear for your safety, you might prefer to use a computer other than your own to visit sites like this.
By the way, if you missed our Expat Women interview with the founder of the AODVCC, Paula Lucas, you can read about this inspirational woman, and she escaped domestic violence, here.
Stay safe, and thanks in advance for spreading the word, Andrea.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The 11ElevenProject - Creating a Snapshot of Life Around the World on 11/11/11
Hi Everyone, I heard today about a very interesting project planned for 11 November 2011. It is called the 11 Eleven Project and it is an international not-for-profit film project that aims to use the arts to create global good. The email came from the Women's Partnership Diversity Coordinator for the project, because she wants to ensure that the story of womanhood, motherhood and sisterhood is captured in the global narrative. To find out more, and to leave a snapshot of your life on 11/11/11, please visit the official website here. If you like, you can follow them on Twitter at @11elevenproject.
All proceeds from the 2 hour documentary feature film, photographic book and world music album produced by Grammy Award Winner Imogen Heap will be donated to charities supporting the 8 UN developmental Goals including WWF, The Hunger Project, Save The Children and Hamlin Fistula.
Many thanks for your support, and good luck to the 11ElevenProject team! Andrea
Worldwide ERC's October 2011 Mobility Magazine
Hi Everyone, If you are in the expat, global mobility and/or relocation industries, you may be interested in the October edition of Worldwide ERC®'s Mobility Magazine, which features the following:
The Road Less Traveled: Employee Assignments in Emerging Economies
By Ali Kursun and Steven P. Nurney
International Assignments: Leader-Led Action Learning
By Ernest Gundling, Ph.D., and Terry Hogan
The Challenge of International Pensions
By Nino Nelissen, SGMS
Destination Profile: Denver, Colorado
By Jessica Petzel, GMS
Stress and Mental Health: Expatriates at Risk
By Sean D. Truman, Ph.D., LP, David A. Sharar, Ph.D., and John C. Pompe, Psy.D., LP, SPHR
Putting Down Roots: How Localization Can Help Reduce Expatriate Program Costs
By Julian Yates
Blue Cards and the Employer Sanctions Directive: ‘Desirable’ and ‘Undesirable’ Migrants to the EU
By Sophy King
In the Spotlight: Managing Foreign Employees at U.S. Client Sites
By Diana Bauerle and Lynden Melmed
Emerging Trends: ‘Best and Brightest’ Schemes Impact Recruitment and Immigration Compliance
By Glenn Faulk and Katherine Salem, GMS
Cultural Challenges of Working in Africa
By Geremie Sawadogo, Ph.D., GMS
Human Capital Development: Best Practices for a Winning Team
By Robert F. Burch, SCRP
Expatriate Parents: Localization With Children?
By Elizabeth Perelstein
The Realities of Global Relocation: The Business Value of Transition Assistance
By Lauren Herring, CRP, SGMS
L-1s: Destination Services Support Assignment Success
By Phillip A. Kosanovich, SCRP
A Day in the Life of a Household Goods Driver
By Eric Reed, CRP, GMS
Happy reading! Andrea
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Expats: Do You Struggle With Your Global Identity?
Hi Everyone, If you ever struggle with your global and/or creative identity, today's post about Anastasia Ashman and Tara Agacayak's new website, Global Niche, might interest you. Anastasia's name might already be familiar to some/many of you, as we interviewed Anastasia back in 2007 about her book Expat Harem, and many of you might also see her regularly tweeting expat links as @AnastasiaAshman. Anastasia tells us more...
Get Creative About Your Place in the World:
How To Operate On A Micro-Yet-Global Level With A Global Niche
"Do you ever feel suspended between multiple worlds – challenged in your pursuits and interests by culture, geography, language or time zone?
Welcome to the club. The Global Niche club, that is. Here we take advantage of our situation mismatches.
In fact, after fourteen years of expatriatism and through my cultural identity work as a writer/producer I’ve come to see this psychic limbo state about who we are and where we belong – familiar to people with trans global lives and culturally hybrid lifestyles – as our secret weapon.
To start at the beginning, we’re all born global citizens even if that knowledge gets trained out of us. As we mature, a global identity seems nebulous, and ungrounded. Better to bond with the more concrete: family, culture, nation. Our schoolmates, colleagues, neighbors.
There’s a problem with concrete, though. It cracks over time and in quickly changing conditions, and sometimes even under its own weight.
I’d even venture to say that ‘our people’ today are not who they used to be. We’re unbounded by the communities in our physical midst. Now we can find inspiring new kinship in interest and outlook.
Expats and international types have more reasons than most to find a way to operate independently of where we happen to be physically. But with today's economic uncertainties no matter who or where we are, we all have to embrace an enterprising view of ourselves – a way to operate unlimited by the options around us. With recent advances in virtual technologies like mobile devices and the social web, we have tools at our disposal to help us live a globally unbounded life.
Now we don’t have to be a tech expert or social media guru to build a micro-yet-global base of operations with a professional web platform and virtual network for continuing education, professional development, and a close-knit but world-flung set of friends. We can be digital world citizens and achieve a cutting-edge state of being – that is, what I call ‘psychic location independence’.
I coined the concept of a global niche – defined as a ‘psychic solution to your global identity crisis’-- at expat+HAREM, the online community of global citizens, identity adventurers and intentional travelers I founded in 2009. The group blog was inspired by the global community that gathered around Tales from the Expat Harem, an anthology by foreign women about their lives in modern Turkey that I co-edited in 2005 with fellow Istanbul resident Jennifer Gokmen.
Expatharem.com was also informed by the idea of an ‘expat harem’ itself, where all the writers in the book and the readers drawn to them are cultural peers in a virtual realm.
Along with my partner Tara Agacayak, a creative enterprise consultant from Silicon Valley in America who’s spent the past 10 years in Turkey, this fall I launched a new work-life initiative at GlobalNiche.net.
In this hands-on venture we'll be practicing creative self enterprise for the global soul, based on the philosophies evolved from 175 incisive neoculture discussions and 2,800 comments at the expat+HAREM site.
Besides the expat+HAREM revelations, we’re also applying life-work innovations Tara and I have been exploring in the past few years in our professional communities of creative entrepreneurs and social media proponents. Combining our expat and entrepreneurship experiences has led us to the conclusion that networked reality is the most important independent survival skill of international people.
If you are interested to receive email about the life-work journeys of mobile progressives and cultural creatives in situation mismatches, please sign up at GlobalNiche.net. Thank you!"
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (October 4 edition)
Hi Everyone, I hope your weekend was fantastic! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...
Clearing Up Common Myths About What It Means to Be Bilingual
owl.li/6ISNx
New Site For Expats (And Others) Who Love To Travel!
Trippy: It Lets Your Friends Help You Plan Your Trips.
Watch the Video to Understand How Cool This New Site Will Be.
on.mash.to/pA6L9a
Looking For A Job? Think Globally: New Post and Book by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
huff.to/qV64Js
Writers Abroad Radio Show 19 – Suzanne Kamata – A Prolific Expat Author in Japan
bit.ly/osJcit
5 Lessons Expats Can Learn From Modern Day Vikings
http://bit.ly/oCfEU5
Expat Spouses and Partners: Can You Help Regula With Her Masters Thesis By Completing This Survey?
bit.ly/qx2l0B
Expat Entrepreneurs Enjoying Success Overseas
bit.ly/nM8JYO
Can You Teach Cultural Intelligence Or Is It Acquired Through International Assignments (Forbes)
onforb.es/nAd18K
My Heart Goes Out To Julie: Here Is Her Marriage Visa Disaster Story
http://bit.ly/nlVkdW
26 Things You Can Learn By Living Abroad For A Year
slidesha.re/np9bOK
Busting the Location Independent and Designer Lifestyle Myth
bit.ly/otIB2n
Free Corporate VIP Passes: European Global Mobility Summit, London, 4 November
bit.ly/oA50XW
The Beatles George Harrison Kept as Time Capsules Fully Packed Suitcases From Trips Abroad
nyti.ms/nQPg5J
Response by Kirsty Rice to... "In my next life I'm coming back as an expat wife!"
bit.ly/o2dmEi
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