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Aletheia Publications, Inc.
Offers numerous useful books on expatriate issues.
46 Bell Hollow Road, Putnam Valley, New York 10579, U.S.A.
Tel. 845-526-2873
E-mail: AlethPub@aol.com
http://www.members.AOL.com/AlethPub
Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW)
Designed for U.S. Foreign Service family members, this website also
includes many helpful articles and links for other expatriates.
http://www.aafsw.org
Career in Your Suitcase
British writer and speaker Jo Parfitt encourages expatriate spouses
to develop portable careers with this site and her books: Forced
to Fly: Your Handbook for an Effective and Happy Life on the Move
(a compilation of short essays by expatriates all over the world)
and A Career in Your Suitcase: Finding the Perfect Portable Career
(Summertime Publishing, Longacre, 16 Main Road, Collyweston, Stamford,
Lincs, PE9 3PF, England, U.K.. E-mail: summertime@lineone.net).
http://www.career-in-your-suitcase.com
Escape Artist
Resources for people wishing to live and work abroad, including
useful country-specific profiles and links.
http://www.escapeartist.com
Expat Coach
Personal coaches for expatriates Vera Nicholas-Gervais and Ritta
Yee specialize in helping their clients make the most of all stages
of the expatriate experience.
http://www.expatcoach.com
Expat Exchange
Offers online discussion and support communities for all categories
of expatriates.
http://www.expatexchange.com
Expat Expert
We were embarrassed when our publisher chose a title very similar
to that used by Canadian author and speaker Robin Pascoe on her
website. Luckily, Robin is extremely understanding, as well as a
terrific resource for expatriates. Her books include two in the
"Culture Shock!" series: Successful Living Abroad:
A Wife's Guide and Successful Living Abroad: A Parent's Guide,
as well as a reentry guide: Homeward Bound: A Spouse's Guide
to Repatriation. Robin offers constantly updated news, views
and links for expatriates on her website, http://www.expatexpert.com.
Foreign Service Youth Foundation
Offers books of interest to internationally-mobile families, such
as Brenda Maxfield's Up, Up and Away! (an interactive book
for internationally-mobile elementary age children); Notes from
a Traveling Childhood: Readings for Internationally Mobile Parents
and Children by Karen C. McCluskey, ed.; Here Today There
Tomorrow: A Training Manual for Working with Internationally Mobile
Youth by Elisabeth Parker and Katherine Rumrill-Teece; and Of
Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood by Sara Mansfield
Taber.
P.O. Box 39185, Washington, D.C. 20016, U.S.A.
http://www.fsyf.org
Global Nomad Resources
1559 Scandia Circle, Reston, Virginia 20190, U.S.A.
Tel. 703-456-0566
Email: nmccaig@gmu.edu
Government Travel Advisories
Official sites offering up-to-date information on safety and security
in countries around the world, along with consular information for
their overseas citizens.
U.S.: http://www.travel.state.gov
U.K.: http://www.fco.gov.uk/travel
Interaction, Inc.
P.O. Box 158
Houghton, New York 14744-0158, U.S.A.
Phone: 716-567-8774
http://www.tckinteract.net
Intercultural Press, Inc.
Our publisher offers numerous other books of special interest to
expatriates, such as the Where in the World are You Going?
workbook for kids by Judith M. Blohm; The Whole World Guide to
Language Learning by Terry Marshall; The Whole World Guide
to Culture Learning by J. Daniel Hess; Survival Kit for Overseas
Living by L. Robert Kohls; The Women's Guide to Overseas
Living by Nancy J. Piet-Pelon and Barbara Hornby; Third Culture
Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds by David C.
Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken; Intercultural Marriage: Promises
and Pitfalls by Dugan Romano; and The Art of Coming Home
and The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti.
P.O. Box 700, 374 US Route One
Yarmouth, Maine 04096, U.S.A.
Tel. 800-370-2665
Fax. 207-846-5181
Email: books@interculturalpress.com
http://www.interculturalpress.com
National Military Family Association
2500 N. Van Dorn Street, Suite 102
Alexandria, Virginia 22302-1601, U.S.A.
http://www.nmfa.org
A Portable Identity
Created by two expat spouses who are also professional counselors,
this site offers support and an e-mail group focused mainly on women
accompanying their partners abroad, based on the workbook of the
same name.
http://www.aportableidentity.com
Tales from a Small Planet
Patricia is Associate Editor of this website, which offers firsthand
"Real Post Reports" on expatriate life in cities around
the world, a comprehensive international schools list, and literary
reflections on expatriate life.
http://www.talesmag.com
TCK World
Information and links for "third-country kids" and their
families.
Phone: 915-672-8274
Email: sbritten@tckworld.com
http://www.tckworld.com
Transitions Abroad
A magazine and website focused on finding jobs and other opportunities
to live abroad.
http://www.transitionsabroad.com
Youth for Understanding
3501 Newark Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20016-3167 U.S.A.
Tel. 202-966-6800
http://www.yfu.org
There are also numerous very helpful websites and online groups
focusing on expatriates in specific countries. Try an Internet search
for "expatriate" and the name of your target country.
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