Transcendendo Disjunções Cívicas: organização de jovens transnacionais em um espaço educacional comunitário

Ariel Borns

doi:10.1590/2175-623699898

Abstract

Resumo: As recentes políticas migratórias nacionais - separação de famílias migrantes na fronteira entre Estados Unidos e México, aumento no número de prisões e remoções pelo Serviço de Imigração e Controle Alfandegário dos Estados Unidos, e o banimento de viagem de muçulmanxs - levantam questões de discriminação com base em raça, etnia e religião. Este artigo examina como, durante épocas de tensão e conflito racial, imigrantxs latinxs e refugiados muçulmanos que são membros de uma organização de imigrantes jovens desafiam narrativas baseadas em déficit por meio de uma ação coletiva em um espaço educacional comunitário. Defendo que um espaço educacional comunitário (EEC) em uma grande cidade do meio-oeste dos Estados Unidos proporciona um espaço único para que a juventude imigrante transnacional construa coalizões pan-étnicas transformadoras de maneiras que abordem a disjunção cívica - o conflito entre as realidades cotidianas dos jovens e os ideais cívicos democráticos adotados por currículos e funcionários de escola - e as mensagens concorrentes de escolas, comunidades e conflitos nacionais e globais dos estudantes.

Highlights

Since the 2016 U.S presidential election, immigration has become an even more politicized and divisive topic
I argue that community-based educational spaces (Baldridge, 2019; Baldridge et al, 2017) offer a unique space for urban immigrant and refugee youth to begin building panethnic coalitions in ways that attend to civic disjuncture, which, drawing on Beth Rubin’s (2007) work, I define as the conflict between youths’ daily realities and the U.S democratic civic ideals often espoused by school curricula and staff
This study demonstrates that transnational youth can play a key role in their civic education by organizing in a Community-Based Educational Space (CBES), which resulted in dynamic educational experiences and advocacy

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Introduction

Since the 2016 U.S presidential election, immigration has become an even more politicized and divisive topic. Separations of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, increased arrests and removals by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Muslim travel ban raise questions of discrimination based on race, ethnicity and religion. These migration policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric have prompted immigrant and refugee youth to organize together to challenge deficit-based narratives. I trace how Latinx immigrant and Muslim refugee youth members of an immigrant youth organization in a large Midwestern city in the United States engage in critical citizenship practices, which “[...] problematize and (re)construct democratic citizenship to address civic realities of exclusion and discrimination” I highlight how youth recognized that by solely focusing on Latinx immigrant students’ struggles, TJ perpetuated the civic disjuncture of other marginalized and minoritized students and responded by making TJ more inclusive

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