Remapping Migration and Education: Centering Methods and Methodologies

At a time of unprecedented human migration, education can serve as critical space for examining how our society is changing and being changed by this global phenomenon. This important and timely book focuses on methodological lenses to study how migration intersects with education.

In view of newer methodological propositions such as the reduction of participant/researcher binaries, along with newer technology allowing for mapping various forms of data, the authors in this volume question the very legitimacy of traditional methods and attempt here to expose power relations and researcher assumptions that may hinder most methodological processes. Authors raise innovative questions, blur disciplinary lines, and reinforce voice and agentry of those who may have been silenced or rendered invisible in the past.

Contributors are: Gladys Akom Ankobrey, Sarah Anschütz, Amy Argenal, Anna Becker, Jordan Corson, Courtney Douglass, Edmund T. Hamann, Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, Iram Khawaja, Jamie Lew, Cathryn Magno, Valentina Mazzucato, Timothy Monreal, Laura J. Ogden, Onallia Esther Osei, Sophia Rodriguez, Betsabé Roman, Juan Sánchez García, Vania Villanueva, Reva Jaffe Walter, Manny Zapata and Victor Zúñiga.

Cathryn Magno, Ph.D. (2000), Columbia University, is Professor in the Department of Education Sciences, University of Fribourg. As a political sociologist, she conducts comparative, intersectional education science research across migration, gender, health, human rights and leadership and governance.

Jamie Lew, Ph.D. (2001), Columbia University, is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University. Through the fields of sociology of education, international im/migration and race and ethnicity, she explores education for migrant youth in urban space.

Sophia Rodriguez, Ph.D. (2014), Loyola University Chicago, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland. She investigates how community-school partnerships, teachers and mental health professionals promote equity for undocumented, unaccompanied and refugee youth.