Cross-border temporalities: Learning with and across borders in transfronterizx youths’ schooling (Poster 4)

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Abstract

This study examines how transfronterizx high school students—U.S. citizens who live in Mexican border cities and attend U.S. public schools—learn through their routine cross-border lives. Anchored in a Learning as Movement framework, it analyzes how learning emerges as students navigate sociocultural, sociopolitical, and educational conditions across the Tijuana–San Diego border region. Drawing on questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, and daily routine logs from students who graduated between 2023 and 2025, the study highlights the ingenious ways students respond to arduous commutes and institutional constraints to pursue a U.S. education. These findings contribute to the limited research on transfronterizx high school students by foregrounding how consequential learning is produced through the navigation of constraint, contradiction, and possibility.

Author

• Isaac Alejandro Felix, University of California - Berkeley