Interplay of a Way of Knowing Among Mexican-Origin Transnationals: Chaining to the Border and to Transnational Communities

• In Event: 35.081 - Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: 35.081-17 - Critical Education Across Multiple Spaces

Abstract

This article illustrates that not only do Mexican-origin transnationals know about the border, but that the border and the communities on either side connect to form part of the ways they know the world. These realities play into the ways of knowing of transnational, Mexican-origin communities. This article, based on multi-sited critical ethnography with four Mexican-origin families, highlights a two-pronged form of chained knowing of these families. Family members’ chained knowing was chained to both their extended communities and to the Mexico-U.S. border. It is time to both recognize and embrace ways of knowing transnational families bring with them toward decolonizing understandings many have about the world, including youth in schools, particularly toward the transformation of both schools and society.

Author

• G. Sue Kasun, Utah State University