Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere: The Expat's Identity Puzzle

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities of expat identity through the experiences of Daniela Draugelis.

About Daniela Daniela Draugelis didn't just study cultural intelligence, she lived it before she even had a name for it. Born in Argentina to a Lithuanian immigrant family (her father fled Europe as a war refugee), she grew up speaking Lithuanian at home, celebrating cultural traditions on weekends, and navigating between worlds long before anyone called it "code-switching." Twenty-plus years of globally mobile life across China, Indonesia, the US, and now Pakistan, she's a certified Cu...

People in this episode

Host: Doreen Cumberford

Guest: Daniela Draugelis

Topics covered

• expat identity
• cultural intelligence
• global mobility
• code-switching
• cultural traditions

Keywords

• expat
• identity
• cultural intelligence
• global mobility
• code-switching
• cultural traditions

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Argentina, Lithuania, China, Indonesia, US, Pakistan

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