Context
As a research team, we came together with a shared interest in migration, student storytelling, and youths' border-crossing experiences. We developed the migration storytelling curriculum to engage with the literacy research that speaks to the nuanced experiences of youth who have experienced border-crossing at different scales in different learning contexts and non-immigrant identifying students who have rarely been positioned to see themselves as part of the social and political discourse around migration and movement.
We have started to share our Migration Storytelling curriculum with a community of educators and researchers. In the fall of 2024, we have been in contact with the teachers of an Heritage Spanish class and an Emergent Multilingual history class in a large, public Midwest high school. These teachers plan to adapt the curriculum for their class contexts and students.
Ongoing Work in Schools
Sharing the Work
The following recording was taken for the Northwestern E4 (virtual) Brown Bag on April 24, 2024. "Studying youths’ migration narratives and learning across spatial and temporal scales." In the first part of the presentation, Eva describes an observational study of transnational digital literacies in the everyday lives of adolescents of Mexican and Chinese heritage. Then, Eva and Patti detail the collaborative design of the Migration Storytelling curriculum and the research that took place in a high-school English classroom where students engaged in inquiries and storytelling on migration.