Centering Belonging in DisCrit: Toward the Dismantling of "Citizenship" and Imagined Boundaries

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We explore how educators and educational systems can learn from bilingual im/migrant families to better support students at the intersections of dis/ability, languages, citizenship, undocumentedness, and race within and across borders. We bring into conversation papers that draw upon and extend a Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit) framework with im/migrant families from a range of geographical contexts (urban and rural settings across the U.S., Mexico, and Italy) to center how mobile families re-draw imagined boundaries around normalcy, language, race, belonging and citizenship. We highlight three understudied areas of DisCrit research that are central to im/migrant families mobile and multilingual lives: dehumanization/depoliticization of im/migrants on account of linguistic practice, intersections with undocumentedness, and a deterritorialization of DisCrit from the US.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Sarah Gallo, Rutgers University

Papers

• When Sanctuary Isn't Enough: Toward a Critical Reflexive Praxis of Sanctuary for Emergent Bilingual/Labeled as Disabled Families - Chelsea Stinson, SUNY - College at Cortland

• Languaging Beyond Borders: Communication Practices of Bilingual Nonspeaking Children and Families - Lilly Padia, Erikson Institute

• Performing the Good (Im)Migrant: Inclusion and Expectations of Linguistic Assimilation - Valentina Migliarini, University of Birmingham; María Cioè-Peña, University of Pennsylvania

• Educators as Co-Agitators: Collaborating With Parents Across Borders and Dis/abilities - Sarah Gallo, Rutgers University; Anel V. Rivera Guerrero, Rutgers Graduate School of Education

Discussant

• María Cioè-Peña, University of Pennsylvania