The Politics of Emotion and Civic Belonging Among Transnational Youth

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Abstract

This study utilized a critical visual research methodology to investigate how immigrant youth attending two high schools for late-arrival immigrants in New York City constructed civic belonging by attending to their everyday enactments of citizenship across the contexts of school, neighborhood and home. Civic belonging refers to the embodied social practices by which immigrant youth construct an emotional connection to particular communities and places at multiple geographic scales. This study has implications for how public schools can better educate immigrant youth as citizens in a world that is more connected through the movement of people, and yet, where many nation-states seek to limit the rights of immigrants to belong within their borders.

Author

• Patrick Keegan, Purdue University - North Central