Abstract

The movement of families around the world is becoming increasingly common, whether involuntarily or voluntarily . Though one of the effects of globalization is the growing number of professional parents whose occupation causes them to move their families around the world on a fairly regular basis, little is known of the effects of such global mobility on the children. This paper describes a small‐scale study undertaken with 120 globally mobile Botswana‐based children between 9 and 11 years of age, which explored their perceptions of what it means to belong to a home country. Findings highlighted the many different factors that influence such perceptions , as well as the need for further research to be undertaken in this increasingly important area