Centering the lives of immigrant and refugee youth: (Re)envisioning narratives of belonging in social studies education

Abstract

and knowledge, and is critical to meeting the needs of migrant youth. Fostering communities, schools, and classrooms to “reimagine the narrative of belonging [and] reclaiming the humanitarian call” to focus on “empathy, solidarity, and a democratizing desire for cultural difference” (pp. 29–30) in school-based curricula is a critical, humanizing endeavor and a necessary move to transform social studies education. This text offers critical historical and contemporary contexts to consider when approaching research in social studies education on immigration, immigrants, refugees, migrants, emergent bilinguals, and children of immigrants.