Limitations and Future research - ‘Europe’s cultural chameleons’ The state in-between: Home and

5. Conclusion

5.2. Limitations and Future research

74 group becomes evident in the analysis. Home, for ETCI, therefore, has a highly emotional meaning, it is somewhere they feel they truly belong, tied strongly to the relationships they engage in. Thus, a sense of home can become something that goes beyond a singular physical place or a single culture and can exist for ETCIs by being open to options outside of the conventional monocultural ways of defining home. The majority of the ETCIs from this study do, therefore, feel like they belong to a collective or a community, creating their own third culture, a culture that is based more on a common experience than it is on a single location, nationality, or ethnicity.¹⁸⁷

75 health may also be a significant field of study to look at to create more visibility and understanding for highly mobile lifestyles in migration studies and the impacts, be it positive or negative, this mobility can have on people’s mental health.

Nonetheless, relevant understandings into how the ETCI sample perceive their sense of home and belongingness and how they anchor themselves in different cultural contexts in order to create home and belonging and how some of those narratives do overlap could be extracted in this thesis and may offer an insightful contribution for this specific field of European migration studies. When ETCIs learn to recognize that there is an existing place of belonging, they can more readily identify new ways to name how they belong to other cultures and environments in their lives. Thus, there is a possibility that opens a way of seeing their cultural heritage as inclusive and encompassing all cultural elements of their being, which transcends the borders of modern nation states, rather than having to choose one singular (physical) place.

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88 Appendices I: Interview Guide

Introduction to the study

My name is Rachele De Felice, I am 25 years old and I am currently studying in my 4th semester at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands). As part of the concluding research project of my Erasmus Mundus MA in Euroculture, I am taking interest in studying highly mobile young adults, who had to move during their childhood to a different country that is not their passport country. Due to globalization and the increase of mobility worldwide the number of such migration movements is evidently and exponentially growing in Europe as well. Such mobile children and young adults, who grow up outside their parents or passport cultures, experience and are influenced by different cultures while growing up and are said to not settle in just one place. Therefore, according to the literature, “home” seems a complex construct for them and is hardly tied to one geographical location. I am taking interest in studying such young adult’s life stories with a specific focus on how they create a home in their current country of residence and, therefore, a sense of belonging. Thank you for being a part of my research project and for taking the time to have this interview with me today!

Informed consent and privacy statement

a. In order to make the results as reliable as possible, I will record the interview. In order to proceed with the study according to my universities’ ethical standards, I have to ask you to fill in the attached consent form. Furthermore, do I have your consent to record the interview?

b. The data will only be used for the research presented and will have a scientific purpose.

For the purpose of data analysis, the data collected orally will be transcribed (transcription), and the data will be anonymized. Thus, identification of the interviewee is excluded.

89 Your participation in the study is completely voluntary and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. If you have any further questions about participation in the study, you can of course ask them at any time. Do you agree with the points just discussed, on the condition that your personal freedom and privacy are guaranteed?

c. In principle, this thesis will not be published. However, the research may appear online and may be available in the university library. If this will be the case, do you agree to its availability online through the university library and for it to be shared with fellow students who might have an interest in the research topic?

Interview guidelines and questions:

Opening questions:

1) What is your name?

2) What is that do you do for a living? Do you study at the moment etc.?

3) How old are you?

General introductory questions/identity construction:

4) Can you tell me about your migration story and the mobilites you experienced so far?

5) Where were you born? Where is your current country of residence?

6) What passport(s) do you have? Did you have any other citizenships throughout your life and have given up one?

7) Where were your parents born?

8) What country do you live in currently? What countries have you lived in? For how long?

9) Which languages do you speak? Which language do you consider your mother tongue or the one that you are most comfortable conversing in?

10) Which cultures evoke a sense of comfort and attachment with you when you think of the places/countries/cities you have lived in? Can you explain to me why you feel so attached to these?

11) How do you usually answer the question “where are you from?” How do you identify with that (specific) country/culture or not and why?

12) After you moved from your birthplace/passport country/country of residence, did you ever go back there for visits?

In document ‘Europe’s cultural chameleons’ The state in-between: Home and belonging of Third Culture Individuals with a European background – an interdisciplinary study (pagina 79-99)