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Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance, and Possibility for Immigrant Youth under Siege
Author(s) -
Fine Michelle,
JaffeWalter Reva
Publication year - 2007
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 - 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.1.76
Subject(s) - siege , immigration , graduation (instrument) , sociology , resistance (ecology) , ethnography , economic justice , gender studies , political science , law , anthropology , history , ecology , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , biology
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.