Foreign at Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service

by Margaret Bender

Overview

An Indian-born foreign service officer killed in the U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya. An Austrian-born doctor who volunteered her medical skills in Japan, South Vietnam, and Iran. A French-speaking woman from a remote village in Gabon. These are just three of the women whose stories are told in this book-women born in other countries who, through their marriages to American diplomats, became representatives of the United States. While they experience immigrant life in a unique way, they share the challenges faced by other women in cross-cultural marriages away from their own countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469789903
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/07/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	225
File size:	225 KB

What People are Saying About This

Cyril Beecroft

This beautifully written book should be required reading for prospective foreign-born spouses, their husbands-to-be, their families, principal officers at U.S. posts, and human resources professionals in any U.S. agency that sends people overseas.
— Mette Beecroft, President, - Foreign at Home and Away

Mette Beecroft

This beautifully written book should be required reading for prospective foreign-born spouses, their husbands-to-be, their families, principal officers at U.S. posts, and human resources professionals in any U.S. agency that sends people overseas.

McCaig

There is nothing "trailing" about these women, whose voices resonate with power and individuality. From a permanent state of otherness, they negotiate social, cultural, and emotional complexities in their marriages, their parenting, and every adult life transition.
— Norma McCaig, Founder, Foreign at Home and Away

Myrna Ann Adkins

Readers of this sensitive and compelling work will gain a new depth of understanding of the challenges facing those who must adjust to new cultures.

Marion Creekmore, Jr.

An illuminating and highly readable book that provides insights into the challenges that confront foreign-born wives of U.S. foreign service officers (and the demands common to all U.S. foreign service spouses). These women are courageous and inspiring.

Norma McCaig

There is nothing "trailing" about these women, whose voices resonate with power and individuality. From a permanent state of otherness, they negotiate social, cultural, and emotional complexities in their marriages, their parenting, and every adult life transition.

Editorial Reviews

An illuminating and highly readable book that provides insights into the challenges that confront foreign-born wives of U.S. foreign service officers (and the demands common to all U.S. foreign service spouses). These women are courageous and inspiring.”
—Foreign at Home and Away, null

Marion Creekmore, Jr.,

This beautifully written book should be required reading for prospective foreign-born spouses, their husbands-to-be, their families, principal officers at U.S. posts, and human resources professionals in any U.S. agency that sends people overseas.”
—Foreign at Home and Away, null

Mette Beecroft, President,

There is nothing “trailing” about these women, whose voices resonate with power and individuality. From a permanent state of otherness, they negotiate social, cultural, and emotional complexities in their marriages, their parenting, and every adult life transition.”
—Foreign at Home and Away, null

Norma McCaig, Founder,

Readers of this sensitive and compelling work will gain a new depth of understanding of the challenges facing those who must adjust to new cultures.”
—Foreign at Home and Away, null

Myrna Ann Adkins,