Border Thinking : Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship, Paperback by Dyrness...

Border Thinking : Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship, Paperback by Dyrness, Andrea; Sepúlveda, Enrique, III, ISBN 151790630X, ISBN-13 9781517906306, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThis volume explores the citizenship experiences and perspectives of immigrant and migrant youth in the Latino diaspora, particularly the messages they get about membership and belonging in their communities and the cultural practices they use to create and imagine new forms of identity and belonging that transcend national borders. It examines young people from the Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Venezuela in three different transnational communities: Northern California, El Salvador, and Madrid, Spain. It analyzes how the dominant regimes of citizenship, particularly discourses of nationalism and integration, make diaspora youth outsiders and erase their multiple identities, how these youth make sense of and respond to the contradictions of their multiple memberships and exclusions in ways that create new possibilities for democratic citizenship, and the use of participatory research methodology to understand this phenomenon. It shows how young people's multiple connections to home and host countries provide them with a critical perspective on national citizenship that allows for the development of democratic civic identities that should be addressed by educators or cultural workers to support active citizenship formations, as well as how these young people's experiences can be an educational and citizenship tool and contributes to the project of decolonizing citizenship. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()