The Cosmopolitan Outlook of Transnational Immigrant Youth at a High School for Late-Arrival Immigrants

• In Event: Roundtable Session 57
  In Roundtable Session: Transnational Youth, Families, and Educational Experiences

Abstract

Worldwide migration requires us to reimagine how to best prepare students as democratic citizens. This study explores the ways in which migration contributes to a cosmopolitan sensibility among Dominican youth attending a high school for late-arrival immigrants. These youth participate in a transnational social field in which they are able to draw upon multiple sources of belonging. Utilizing a combination of individual and focus group interviews, and visual research methodologies, this study helps to explain how this group of youth enact a rooted cosmopolitanism. The findings of this study have important implications for citizenship learning in the context of globalization.

Author

• Patrick Keegan, Teachers College, Columbia University