ERIC Number: EJ1402514
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0042-0859
EISSN: EISSN-1552-8340
On the Abolition of Belonging as Property: Toward Justice for Immigrant Children of Color
Urban Education, v59 n1 p5-30 2024
Belonging matters in early childhood. Despite its importance, the majoritarian conceptualization of belonging is seldom problematized. In the US, the politics of belonging draws racialized lines of inclusion and exclusion, (re)inscribing longstanding racialized systems of inequity and injustice. Through critical race and Latina feminist perspectives and methodologies, an immigrant mother and son of Color examined their lived experiences. Findings unveil the urgency of upending formal racialized notions of belonging--for example, citizenship, co-naturalized with whiteness. Attending to the palpable consequences of ideological and relational borders that exclude and subjugate immigrants of Color, implications call for abolishing belonging as property and cultivating collective healing.
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Young Children, Immigrants, Political Influences, Racism, Mothers, Minority Groups, Whites, Justice
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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