""La Vida de los Emigrantes": Digital testimonios of unaccompanied Central American high school youth. Issue 4 (18th October 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- ""La Vida de los Emigrantes": Digital testimonios of unaccompanied Central American high school youth. Issue 4 (18th October 2018)
- Main Title:
- ""La Vida de los Emigrantes"
- Authors:
- McGinnis, Theresa Ann
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Purpose: In September 2014, 1, 200 unaccompanied immigrant youth, from a region of Central America known for high rates of violence and homicide, enrolled in a suburban school district of New York State. This paper aims to highlight the stories of the newly arrived Central American high school youth, as told through Bilingual (Spanish/English) digital testimonios completed in the English Language Arts classroom. The author examines how the telling of their stories of surviving migration offers a way for the youth to respond to political and emotional struggles. The author also explores how the youth become active participants in the telling of political narratives/testimonios. Design/methodology/approach: Part of a larger ethnographic case study, the author adopts the ethnographic approaches of the new literacy studies. Testimonios as a research epistemology privilege the youth's narratives as sources of knowledge, and allow the youth to reclaim their authority in telling their own stories. Findings: The integration of critical digital texts into the English Language Arts classroom created a participatory classroom culture where the Central American youth's digital testimonios can be seen as a shared history of struggles that make visible the physical toil of their journeys, the truth of their border crossings and their enactments of political identities. As a collective, the youth's stories become part of national and global political dialogues.Abstract : Purpose: In September 2014, 1, 200 unaccompanied immigrant youth, from a region of Central America known for high rates of violence and homicide, enrolled in a suburban school district of New York State. This paper aims to highlight the stories of the newly arrived Central American high school youth, as told through Bilingual (Spanish/English) digital testimonios completed in the English Language Arts classroom. The author examines how the telling of their stories of surviving migration offers a way for the youth to respond to political and emotional struggles. The author also explores how the youth become active participants in the telling of political narratives/testimonios. Design/methodology/approach: Part of a larger ethnographic case study, the author adopts the ethnographic approaches of the new literacy studies. Testimonios as a research epistemology privilege the youth's narratives as sources of knowledge, and allow the youth to reclaim their authority in telling their own stories. Findings: The integration of critical digital texts into the English Language Arts classroom created a participatory classroom culture where the Central American youth's digital testimonios can be seen as a shared history of struggles that make visible the physical toil of their journeys, the truth of their border crossings and their enactments of political identities. As a collective, the youth's stories become part of national and global political dialogues. Originality/value: At a time when immigrant youth struggle for rights, to further their education and to negotiate the daily experiences of living in a new country, this research offers a unique perspective on the politics of inclusion and exclusion for unaccompanied youth. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- English teaching. Volume 17:Issue 4(2018)
- Journal:
- English teaching
- Issue:
- Volume 17:Issue 4(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 17, Issue 4 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0017-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 400
- Page End:
- 418
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10-18
- Subjects:
- Literacy -- Writing -- New literacies -- Literacy and identity -- Immigrant populations
English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals
428.0071 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/etpc ↗
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ ↗
http://education.waikato.ac.nz/journal/english_journal/view.php ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1108/ETPC-05-2017-0076 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2059-5727
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