Exploring Intersectional Identities Across Chronotopes: A Narrative Inquiry into an Asian Migrant Teacher’s Lived Experiences

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Abstract

This narrative inquiry examines the identities and lived experiences of a first-generation Asian immigrant teacher in the U.S. By exploring the fluid and hybrid nature of the teacher’s intersectional identities across time and space, this study aims to deepen understanding of how migrant teachers of Asian descent in the U.S. construct and negotiate their identities within highly globalized and racialized U.S. educational contexts. Drawing on theoretical frameworks, including chronotopic, intersectional, transnational, and raciolinguistic lenses, the findings highlight the complexities and possibilities embedded in an Asian migrant teacher’s narrativized identities and experiences across chronotopes of (il)legitimacy, agency, and becoming. It offers theoretical and methodological insights into the intersectional identities of migrant teachers of Asian descent and beyond.

Author

• Seungwoo Hwang, Michigan State University