Immigrant Student Experiences in Canada

Mothers and Children Storying Belonging
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-93683-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

This book centers immigrant children’s school experiences as recounted and interpreted by their mothers, exposing how racialization, exclusion, and proximity to Whiteness shape their realities in Canadian schools. Drawing from Afro-Caribbean, Ghanaian, Indian, Afghan, and Chinese communities, mothers emerge as critical knowledge holders, sharing their children's stories to disrupt institutional erasure. Part One’s two chapters reveal how Canadian schools enact symbolic multiculturalism while reinforcing linguistic conformity and Eurocentric norms, reframing identity, belonging, and home through mothers’ stories. Part Two’s four chapters present mothers’ and children’s experiences capturing subversive resistance, intergenerational tensions, trauma, invisibility, and affirmation. The concluding chapter frames storytelling as epistemic resistance, grounding immigrant families' wisdom as essential to transforming education.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oladi, Soudeh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Mapping Post-Migration Experiences: Mothers and Sorties.- 3. Mother Warriors Witnessing Black Childhood: Surveillance, Subversion, and Storytelling.- 4. Accented Othering and Traces of the Colonial Legacy: Narratives of Indian Immigrant K-5 Students.- 5. Hiding in Plain Sight: Proximity to Whiteness and the Chinese Immigrant Experience.- 6. Traces of Trauma: Afghan Mothers as Cultural Custodians and Carriers of Their Children’s Stories.- 7. Conclusion Forever Migrants: Mothers, Students, Stories.

Über Autor(innen)

Soudeh Oladi is a scholar in education and equity studies, specializing in immigrant students' schooling and identity formation. Her research examines racialized educational structures through anti-racist, decolonial frameworks, and intersectional storytelling.