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ERIC Number: EJ762283
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 21
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0161-7761
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Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance, and Possibility for Immigrant Youth under Siege
Fine, Michelle; Jaffe-Walter, Reva; Pedraza, Pedro; Futch, Valerie; Stoudt, Brett
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v38 n1 p76-96 Mar 2007
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.
University of California Press. Available from: AnthroSource. 2000 Center Street Suite 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223. Fax: 510-642-9917; e-mail: contact@anthrosource.net; Web site: http://www.anthrosource.net/loi/aeq
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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