Recommended in Think Tank: IDEAS sessions, this new book explores the "politics of belonging in an international school." GROWING UP IN TRANSIT: The Politics of Belonging at an International School is the first and only book that addresses structural racism within international schools.
GROWING UP IN TRANSIT tells the story of the students' struggles with identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. It is written based on Danau's doctoral research.
'This is my country. The bule (white people) shouldn't mess with our country,' he said, perched precariously on the back of a bench at an international school in Jakarta. Dae Sik was talking about Indonesia.