Documentation Status and Youth’s Critical Consciousness across Borders

Sarah Gallo () and Melissa Adams Corral
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Sarah Gallo: Graduate School of Education, Department of Learning & Teaching, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 08901, USA
Melissa Adams Corral: Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Texas Río Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: Centering the testimonios of two sets of transborder high school seniors living and learning in Mexico and the U.S., in this article, we draw upon decolonizing approaches to theorize critical consciousness formation for and with students from families with mixed documentation status who cross physical and metaphorical borders. Data come from two larger qualitative studies on immigration and education and demonstrate how young people recognize inequity, critique it, and engage in a range of actions to counteract it. We argue that border-crossing youth draw upon personal experiences to critique and take action to change oppressive realities. We extend critical consciousness scholarship by bringing unique attention to the role of undocumentedness in critical consciousness formation.

Keywords: critical consciousness; transborder; documentation status; testimonio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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