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Session Submission Type: Symposium
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.
Policy Discourses and Schooling for New Populations of English Learners - Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Discursive Flows: Ecologies of Schooling for English Learners in Non-Gateway Communities - Margaret R. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Narrating the Place of Immigrants in Town History: Stories From the New Latino Diaspora - Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine R. Rhodes, University of Pennsylvania
Rural Latino High School Students Considering Identity and Belonging Through Comparative Study of Newcomer Youth in South Africa - Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Saloshna Vandeyar, University of Pretoria; Janet Marie Eckerson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln