Reflections of Opportunity and Struggle: The Educational Experience of Transmigrant Salvadorans

• In Event: 69.057 - Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: 69.057-13 - Youth Experiences With Settler Colonial Schooling

Abstract

This paper examines the extent to which transnational systems of support influence the educational experience of late entry, transmigrant youth. Utilizing a Chicana Feminist Epistemology (Bernal,1998), and Segura’s (1993) concept of Chicana education, this paper centers the experiences of Salvadoran participants as they reflect on their educational experiences across two different decades – 1970s and 1980s. Findings suggest the same factors - institutional, educational, and familial ¬– significantly influence the educational trajectory of transmigrant youth across each decade.

Author

• Michelle Soto-Peña, Claremont Graduate University