Learning on the Move/Learning With Movements: Theorizing Activism, Education, and Migration

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposia brings together three migrant justice activists/educators from diverse locations and groups to examine how different forms of mobility manifest within Indigenous and migrant justice movements. We ask what possibilities–and responsibilities–open when we deeply consider mobility in activism. Drawing from case studies and movements including Alarm Phone-Watch the Med, Zapatismo, the Karen sovereign land struggle, and No One Is Illegal, we explore how activist and Indigenous movements are imagining and working toward alternative futures, ones without borders and that center respect for land. We ask: how can educational practices and processes support these movements? Our analysis intersects Indigenous theories of place and education with border studies, new mobilities theory and queer theoretical approaches.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities