Intersecting Immigration and Education: Immigrant-Origin Students, Families, and Educators in New York State

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session examines the dimensions, possibilities, and lessons learned in working to critically amplify what immigration means in connection to schooling contexts. The papers engage with interactions and data from surveys and focus groups with immigrant students, families and their educators from a five-year state-funded project. A set of grounding principles anchor the project as a way to better understand the experiences of immigrant communities and researching with immigrant communities in schools. The papers highlight how immigration policy and educational practices are intertwined in ways that shape teaching and learning at the elementary level and beyond. They also address the complexities of designing and sustaining an ethical ethos in Participatory Action Research (PAR) within the confines of an institutionalized partnership.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Daniela Alulema, CUNY - Initiative on Immigration and Education

Papers

• Firsthand Experiences Living at the Intersections of Immigration and Education: Lessons From New York State - Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Graduate Center - CUNY

• Ethical Considerations and Institutional Negotiations in PAR Research on Immigration and Education - Anthony J. Harb, University of California - San Diego; Brian Avila Klein, Graduate Center - CUNY; Sara P. Alvarez, Queens College - CUNY

• Buscando Adonde No Hay: Immigrant-Origin Families Narratives of Navigating Public Systems - Rosa Angela Calosso, Graduate Center - CUNY; Cecilia M. Espinosa, Lehman College - CUNY

• Co-Creating Spaces for Educational Possibilities: How Elementary Teachers Centered Immigrant-Origin Students and Cultivated Critical Classrooms - Maite Sanchez, Hunter College - CUNY; Noelle Mapes, Graduate Center - CUNY

Discussant

• Tatyana Kleyn, City College of New York - CUNY