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Session Type: Symposium
Building on classic and contemporary theorizations of liminality, the proposed symposium offers ethnographic examinations of non-dominant youth’s social and educational lives within and across institutional spaces. This conceptual frame is particularly relevant because non-dominant youth (i.e. post-colonial, migrant/refugee, displaced/orphaned) are often represented as caught in the middle of various polarities (nation-states, languages, home/school domains, etc.) or as having to traverse multiple borders (whether geographical or symbolic). Leveraging anthropological evidence from diverse communities and settings across the globe, the symposium focuses on non-dominant youth’s perspectives on their own experiences of liminality vis-à-vis their ability to negotiate identity, language, learning, and belonging. We emphasize how, in navigating spaces and actions, non-dominant youth situate themselves and draw from their rich repertoires of practice.
Stewards of the Language: Liminality and Transnational Sovereignty - Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, University of California - Berkeley; Cristina Mendez, University of California - Berkeley
"Miss, Our Clothes Are Clean": Contesting Liminality in Lebanese Kindergarten Classrooms - Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Barnard College, Columbia University; Samira Chatila, University of Minnesota
Immigrant Children's Social Lives in the Liminal Interludes of Schooling - Inmaculada Maria Garcia Sanchez, University of California - Los Angeles
Angolan Children's Experiences in Residential Centers: Displacement, Liminality, and Belonging - Kristina João Nazimova, Temple University
Crossing Liminal Spaces: Greek Cypriot Teenagers' Political Socialization in Turkish Language Classes - Constadina Charalambous, European University Cyprus
Liminal Strategies of Guatemalan Maya Youth Workers in Los Angeles - Brendan Harold O'Connor, Arizona State University; Stephanie Canizales, University of California Merced