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Beyond National Boundaries: Transnational Ways of Knowing and Belonging in Mexico

Fri, April 17, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Room

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Based on qualitative research studies in Mexico, we draw upon transnational lenses (Dyrness & El-Haj, 2019) to attend to the possibilities of ways of knowing and belonging that move beyond national boundaries into transnational spaces, where the goal is to challenge traditional hierarchies in order to understand people’s knowledges and identities in their own right, not based upon how they measure up to local (mononational) standards. By tracing the experiences of students from repatriated families across levels of schooling, return migrants as they enter the Mexican workforce, and our own processes as Indigenous, Mexican, and US researchers, we seek to engage in dialogue about transnational schooling and research that pushes against the traditional hierarchies of Mexico-US relations.

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