Place identity construction of Third Culture Kids: Eliciting voices of children with high mobility lifestyle

•High mobility lifestyles has spread people around the globe making long-term relationships (friendships) more difficult.•Lacking quality of long term relationships or failed to make an attempt to connect and maintain connection with others make Third Culture Kids feel isolated and lonely.•Enabling modalities for place identity construction for Third Culture Kids include: sense of stability, sense of belongingness and sense of direction.