Asian American Students’ Transnational and Transcultural Identity Development Through Transnational Literacy Practices

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 3:20 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: AANHPI Communities’ Intergenerational, Transnational, and Translanguaging Perspectives (Table 11)

Abstract

This study explores how students from Asian immigrant families construct their transnational and transcultural identities by reflecting on their dynamic border-crossing experiences. The students’ creation of artifacts and collection of their oral narratives are analyzed to seek how they construct and negotiate their hybrid and multifaceted identities by moving across geographical and metaphorical borders. The findings show that Asian-American students shape their collective identities when engaging in authentic/meaningful literacy practices that support them to reflect on and make connections to their transnational experiences and (hi)stories. The findings provide implications for educators that including literacy practices in transnational contexts can be powerful pedagogy for transnational students to reflect on their richly diverse life experiences and make meanings of their transnational lifeworld.

Author

• Chaehyun Lee, Southeastern Oklahoma State University