The Ripple Effect: Parallel Monsters of Immigration, Abuse, and Language From the Borderlands

• In Event: 45.076 - Intimate Stories of Lived Experience

Abstract

Entering into a three-dimensional narrative space as a participant researcher with Latinx students precipitated uncomfortable memories of immigration and inspired the need to develop postcolonial research methods. Other participants were also entangled as we each accessed our histories to form lines of inquiry that entrenched us in a Borderlands qualitative documentary performance. As a result, I encourage researchers to become more cognizant of narrative inquiry’s ripple effects, in this case; naturalistic observation, and narrative performances. Performance arts can support educational understandings of race, privilege, immigration and policies such as our posthumanist critique of land. Researchers and educators should assume narrative stances in their research and witness educational youth performance arts for educational social justice artifacts.

Author

• Lobat Asadi, Texas A&M University - College Station