Teaching to Disrupt the Narrative of Presence

by | Sep 2, 2024

Migrations are processes that disrupt, reshape, and reconceptualize places and cultures through the movement of people. Who have been migrants and what are their stories as they journey from the regions they leave and into the regions they travel to and through? What...

Educating From Scratch

by | Sep 1, 2024

  How might the absence of appropriate resources be a barrier to migration? How do migrants enact futurism in difficult situations, and with what consequences? Often, migrants relocate because of acute disruption: war, disaster, or persecution. Slower forms of...

Places, Words, Stories

by | Aug 31, 2024

  Migration and its disruptions define our experiences of home—and probably yours, too. It shapes a great deal of our personal and professional attentions. We were both born in D.C., extensions of the circuitous migrations of our respective families. We grew up...

Teaching and Learning with Migrant and Refugee Students

by | Aug 31, 2024

JFE Guest Editor Michelle Banks (MB) facilitated this conversation between a teacher and her former student, both of whom came to the United States from other countries. Teachers are often on the frontline of creating spaces for migrant and refugee children to find...

Finding a Second Jia (Home)

by | Aug 31, 2024

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed                        床前明月光 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng Could there have been a frost already                                       疑是地上霜 yí shì dì shàng shuāng Lifting my head to look / I found that it was moonlight           ...