Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance, and Possibility for Immigrant Youth Under Siege
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2007
Abstract
In this article, we consider the ways in which educational policies and institutions today enable or obstruct young people who are immigrant English-language learners as they seek to cross cultural and educational borders. Contrasting a class action suit in California protesting high stakes testing that will significantly limit graduation rates, and an ethnographic analysis of the international high schools in which immigrant youth engage with cultural and educational depth and support and graduate at exceptional rates, this article challenges the current policy climate in which immigrant youth are increasingly under siege and at risk of being multiply undocumented. In the spirit of protest, we trace the many sites of resistance and possibility dotting the nation, in which educators, communities, families, advocates, and youth are demanding educational access and justice.
DOI
10.1525/aeq.2007.38.1.76
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Fine, Michelle; Jaffe-Walter, Reva; Pedraza, Pedro; Futch, Valerie; and Stoudt, Brett, "Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance, and Possibility for Immigrant Youth Under Siege" (2007). Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works. 34.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-leadership-facpubs/34