Moscas, metiches, and methodologies: exploring power, subjectivity, and voice when researching the undocumented. Issue 8 (14th September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Reyna Rivarola, Alonso R.; López, Gerardo R.
• Is Part Of: International journal of qualitative studies in education. Volume 34:Issue 8(2021)
• Page Start: 733
• Page End: 745
• Publication Date: 2021-09-14
• Subjects: Undocumented -- research ethics -- power -- voice -- representation; Education -- Research -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Recherche -- Périodiques; Sciences de l'éducation -- Méthodes qualitatives -- Périodiques; 370.72
• DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2021.1930262
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-8398

Abstract

Abstract: In this essay, Gerardo R. López, a non-undocumented immigrant scholar, who has done extensive research with undocumented immigrant communities, has a conversation with Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, an undocumented immigrant scholar with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), who writes and researches issues of how undocumented immigrant students experience schooling from a critical situated stance. Their conversation explores a range of topics that interrogate the problematic nature of researching the self/other, while simultaneously examining the broader purpose(s) of research in the academy.