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Contra Viento y Marea (Against Wind and Tide): Building Civic Identity among Children of Emigration in El Salvador
Author(s) -
DYRNESS ANDREA
Publication year - 2012
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.1548-1492.2011.01156.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , sociology , identity (music) , democracy , gender studies , participatory action research , citizen journalism , inequality , immigration , face (sociological concept) , citizenship education , globalization , political science , social science , politics , anthropology , law , physics , acoustics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This article examines contrasting approaches to citizenship education in two schools in San Salvador, El Salvador, in the face of highly visible transnational migration. I argue that while transnational realities challenge education for democratic citizenship, educational processes that enable students to interrogate their own transnational realities—in particular, their relationship to macrostructural relations of inequality—facilitate the development of critical, action‐oriented civic identities. [civic identity, transnational migration, participatory research, democratic citizenship education]