Immigrant Pedagogies: Testimonios of Upward Mobility of Transnational Students and Mothers in Northern Chile

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Decolonial Pedagogies, Feminism, and Geopolitics (Table 6)

Abstract

In this paper, I provide an alternative perspective for addressing cultural wealth in education. To do that, I do testimonios of a Colombian family settled in Antofagasta, Chile, in 2017, by mainly asking: How do immigrant students and their families set up pathways for social mobility in marginalized educational settings in which there is virtual invisibility of their cultural wealth? The paper provides counternarratives linked to familial solidarity and 2) neoliberal desires that drive upward mobility. These counternarratives defy the mobilization and deployment of discourses of control over Latin American immigrants in their attempt to address the lived experiences of the South-South immigrant mothers and their children as they deploy aspirational, navigational, and resistance assets.

Author

• Manuel A. Pérez-Troncoso, PUCV-CIAE Postdoctoral Researcher