Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

Acknowledging Benedict Anderson's well-established idea that the nation is an imagined community, the specific focus of this journal is on the large and growing number of people whose identities are formed by the experience of having lived in three or more different nations during their childhoods. This is because there is already a substantial body of scholarly work on issues of migrancy, diaspora, and bicultural identities, so this journal was established to explore the experiences, perspectives, representations, and cultural productions of people whose mobile global childhoods have produced more complex cosmopolitan identities.

Our first issue was published in May 2026, and for our second issue we are inow nviting submissions which include:

• Scholarly articles based on original research in the arts (particularly literature) and/or the social sciences
• Book reviews
• Autobiographical narratives
• Original pieces of creative writing

Please see the submission guidelines: Submissions | Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities and contact the editor if you have any questions: thirdculturejournal@gmail.com