Partnering with Immigrant Communities: Action Through Literacy (Language and Literacy Series)

In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a 5-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American communities. Sharing rich examples, the authors examine how these diverse groups use language and literacy practices to advocate for greater opportunities. This unique partnership demonstrates how to draw on the knowledge and interests of a multilingual community to inform literacy teaching and learning, both in and out of school. It also provides guidelines for reimagining university/community collaborations and the practice of ethical partnering. 
Partnering with Immigrant Communities focuses on:
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<li> Minoritized immigrant populations, including groups with undocumented status and those who came to the United States to flee religious persecution. </li>
<li> The intellectual and activist legacies that are already present in communities as people come together to take action on matters that directly impact their lives. </li>
<li> A local cosmopolitanism that serves as a refuge for many immigrants who may otherwise be scapegoated within the dominant culture. </li>
<li> A coalition of multilingual, multiethnic communities whose experiences are intertwined by overlapping histories of colonization and shared present struggles.</li>
<li> Ethical and effective community-based research, including concrete and theoretically informed examples.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Campano, Gerald

Ghiso, María Paula

Welch, Bethany J.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a five-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American communities. Sharing rich examples, the authors examine how these diverse groups use language and literacy practices to advocate for greater opportunities. This unique partnership demonstrates how to draw on the knowledge and interests of a multilingual community to inform literacy teaching and learning, both in and out of school. It also provides guidelines for reimagining university/community collaborations and the practice of ethical partnering.Partnering with Immigrant Communities focuses on:* Minoritized immigrant populations, including groups with undocumented status and those who came to the United States to flee religious persecution.* The intellectual and activist legacies that are already present in communities as people come together to take action on matters that directly impact their lives.* A local cosmopolitanism that serves as a refuge for many immigrants who may otherwise be scapegoated within the dominant culture.* The role that faith-based organizations play in supporting immigrants.* A coalition of multilingual, multiethnic communities whose experiences are intertwined by overlapping histories of colonization and shared present struggles.* Ethical and effective community-based research, including concrete and theoretically informed examples.

Methods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand and take action on issues of educational justice.The book shifts assumptions about who is considered a researcher, drawing attention to issues of power and the ethics of collaborations, and foregrounding how those who have often been positioned as the objects of educational interventions can--and have the rights to--play an active role in creating educational arrangements more conducive to their own flourishing.The authors draw on a decade-long partnership across the boundaries of race, language, immigration status, and institutional affiliation to provide examples that illustrate the complexities and possibilities of this work. They distill principles, practices, and ongoing inquiries for researchers to consider across all aspects of the research process.The book supports researchers in creating the conditions for collaborative inquiry into issues of educational (in)justice that are salient to community partners. It will be of interest to advanced undergraduate, graduate students and scholars in education, and other disciplines that utilize a CBR method such as healthcare research and anthropology, as well as scholars interested in qualitative methods and issues of social justice in research.

Methods for Community-Based Research: Advancing Educational Justice and Epistemic Rights

Reference

Routledge

Methods for Community-Based Research

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