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Community and School Narratives, Policies, and Practices for New Immigrant Populations

Mon, April 16, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: Second Level, West Room 206

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Many rural and suburban American towns that have not traditionally been home to immigrants have received large and growing immigrant populations over the past 10-15 years. These dramatic population changes hold practical and symbolic consequences for both host communities and immigrants. Immigration to new destinations allows new forms of social identification that do not typically occur in more traditional immigrant-receiving communities. Through discourse analysis and ethnography, this session explores the ways in which hosts and immigrants make sense of one another and themselves in such communities. The papers describe both local and more widely circulating models of personhood that are applied to or adopted by newcomers. The session also suggests implications for educational practice in new destination communities.

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