Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2022
Journal / Book Title
Nordic Journal of Social Research
Abstract
Feminists of colour have attuned us to the epistemologies arising from the social, cultural and structural ‘standpoints’ of marginalised communities. Building on this insight, this paper attends to how the racialising regimes of state power targeting migrant youth of colour render their bodies as central sites for generating new knowledge. Drawing on ethnographic research with im/migrants youth in Catalonia, Spain, and in Denmark, this paper explores what the ‘epistemological standpoints of migrant youth’—whose bodies must daily endure racialising public surveillance and bear the burden of collective worries about nations’ futures—can teach us about knowledge-making and about opportunities therein for resistance and transformation.
DOI
10.18261/njsr.13.1.7
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Ríos-Rojas, Anne and Jaffe-Walter, Reva, "‘Before anything else, I am a person’. Listening to the Epistemological Standpoints of Im/migrant Youth" (2022). Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works. 132.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-fdns-facpubs/132
Rights
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Published Citation
Ríos-Rojas, A. (Anna), & Jaffe-Walter, R. (2022). ‘Before anything else, I am a person’. Listening to the Epistemological Standpoints of Im/migrant Youth: Racialisation and Reimagining the Human. Nordic Journal of Social Research, 13(1), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.18261/njsr.13.1.7