Building Educational Possibilities: Migrants, Refugees, and Students of Color

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium reimagines how education can work towards racial justice. Understanding that U.S. schools have historically miseducated students who are migrants, immigrants, refugees and from minoritized communities with false ideas about themselves, their communities, and their place in the world (Camangian & Cariaga, 2021; Mouavangsou, 2019; Constantino, 1982; Woodson, 1933) and inspired by Eve Tuck’s (2009) call to shift from documenting damage to invoke change, the symposium’s papers open a discussion between the presenters and audience to generate a shared understanding of (a) how miseducation operates, (b) the ways minoritized communities undo their miseducation and (c) the assets, cultural wealth and protective factors diverse communities use to create racially just educational possibilities.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Mariama Gray, California State University - East Bay

Papers

• HMoob Miseducation to Transformation: Centering HMoob Epistemologies and Ontologies in Education - Kaozong Nancy Mouavangsou, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

• And Still We Rise: Student Accounts of Protective Factors During the Great Migration - Mariama Gray, California State University - East Bay

• "Nobody Knows About Us": Contesting Refugee Erasure in Community-Based Educational Spaces - Linda M. Pheng, University of Pennsylvania

• “These Kids Are Paying Attention”: Using Critical Race Theory to Develop Socially Just Classrooms - Benjamin Blaisdell, East Carolina University

Discussant

• Eve Tuck, New York University