Methodologies for Exploring and Creating Narratives of Migration and Transnationalism in Various Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together researchers who focus on the intersections of mobility, narrative, and migration. Papers in this session consider various qualitative methodologies that can help educational researchers document and center the narratives of im/migrant children and youth, including Mexican transborder students and families, Latine/x children and youth, Korean American children, and youth writing and learning about migration in a heterogeneous U.S. classroom. The research approaches include multimodal research and storytelling, participatory methods, child-centered research, and narrative analysis. The papers show how these methods can be used to support educational and research partnership with youth and families to generate narrative insights into issues of migration, movements, and connections across geopolitical borders.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Wan Shun Eva Lam, Northwestern University

Papers

• Pushing Methodological Borders in Migration Studies - Tatyana Kleyn, City College of New York - CUNY

• Storying Border-crossing Identities: Centering Young Latine/x Transnational Children and Youth’s Multimodal Writing With The Arts - Shuai Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Qinchun Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Idalia Nunez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The Nexus of Migration Narratives, Transnational Imagination, and Child Agency Explored Through Child-Generated Multimodal Artifacts - Jungmin Kwon, Michigan State University

• Exploring the Semiotics of Space and Time in Youths’ Narratives of Migration and Transnational Belonging - Wan Shun Eva Lam, Northwestern University; Patricia Delacruz, Evanston Township High School; Gautam Singh Bisht, Northwestern University; Tori Y. Choi, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Allison Skerrett, University of Texas at Austin