Archive for September, 2001

Feeling out of Place at their Place

Posted by Andrew Butcher on September 27th, 2001

Seminar given at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University at Wellington, 27 September 2001 

Do you know what it is to feel out of place? To be like Bart Simpson in The Cosby Show?  To be at home but not feel at home? To be at your place and yet feel out of place?

If I asked those questions to international students here at Massey many of them may say yes. If I asked those questions to those same students once they had graduated and returned to their countries of origin, many of them would still say yes.

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