ERIC Number: EJ1423367
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-8458
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"Estás Luchando…Por "Toda" La Comunidad": The Communal Organizing Literacies of Latine/x Immigrant Families
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v23 n3 p380-395 2024
This study examines the "communal organizing literacies" of Latine/x immigrant families who organize for immigrant rights in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drawing from a subset of qualitative data (e.g., observant-participant fieldnotes, open-ended interviews, member checks, artifacts, and photographs) from a larger year-long practitioner inquiry study with an intergenerational group of 11 un/documented Latine/x immigrants, this research asks: "How do Latine/x immigrant families mobilize literacy in their immigrant rights organizing practice?" Through analysis grounded in the concept of a "communal pedagogy of resistance" (CPR), this study shows that Latine/x immigrants organize through communal organizing literacies that involve (a) reading and composing communal organizing literacy texts, and (b) enacting communal organizing literacy events on the streets, "moving forward" intersectional political mobilization that enacts a "communal" conceptualization of family. Implications include the need for education practitioners/scholars to expand their definition of family, reconceptualize intergenerational organizing as family engagement, and work with immigrant families as practice/policy/research partners.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Family Involvement, Activism, Civil Rights, Family Literacy, Social Action, Intergenerational Programs, Political Socialization
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
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