Crossing Borders: The Perspectives of Transnational Students in One Urban Oregon High School

• In Event: Understanding Immigrant Students and Educators' Transnational Experiences

Abstract

This project explores the understandings of students self-identifying as transnational and their unique experiences in one international baccalaureate (IB) high school in urban Oregon. The goal of our study is to gain insight into how adolescents construct their transnational identities in relation to their school and how these identities influence their social and educational experiences, as told through the words of young people themselves. Using qualitative coding and Gee's tools for discourse analysis, the project aims to explore how students' position their identities in relation to their school and what insights the data offers for the continued improvement of transnational education both in other Oregon schools, but also schools across the United States

Authors

• Maggie R. Mitteis, University of Oregon

• Audrey Lucero, University of Oregon

• Bobbie Bermudez, University of Oregon