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Refugee and Displaced Youth Negotiating Imagined and Lived Identities in a Photography‐Based Educational Project in the United States and Colombia
Author(s) -
Guerrero Alba Lucy,
Tinkler Tessa
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2010.01067.x
Subject(s) - refugee , displaced person , sociology , ethnography , negotiation , gender studies , identity (music) , sociocultural evolution , participant observation , anthropology , social science , political science , aesthetics , philosophy , law
Drawing from sociocultural theories of identity, this study uses ethnographic tools to compare how displaced children living in two distinct international contexts, who are linked by their participation in a community‐based photography project, negotiate their identities and the discourses constructed around their experiences of displacement. We argue that children, rather than being passive victims of circumstance, are actively involved in a process of reconstructing the meanings of their experiences through language and social interactions. [identities, informal education, refugee and displaced children]