Melissa Adams Corral
Biographic Data
| ID | 1585813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Adams Corral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa Adams |
| FAMILY NAME | Corral |
| SIGNATURE | CORRAL M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4529-1203 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Irrepressible/Irresponsible Trap
Operation Lone Star (OLS), a state-level effort to fortify the México-U.S. border in Texas, marked an escalation in the U.S. “Prevention Through Deterrence” (PTD) policy. How have politicians and government officials justified the escalation of immigration enforcement tactics despite the futility and lethality of these tools? Our theoretical approach relies on Beltrán’s (2020) critical exploration of migrant cruelty to understand how migrant deat…
Cuentos (In)Creíbles
Through the careful analysis of the border-crossing epistemologies that are collaboratively shared and validated by a fifth grader and ethnographer in liminal classroom spaces, we identify key methodological approaches for researchers working with border crossers to document the co-production of knowledge among researchers and participants, to engage in active reflection with trusted thought partners, and to understand the possibilities for perso…
A community sin vergüenza
This article explores the parallels experienced when pre-service teachers and those teaching multilingual students in elementary school design classroom spaces around the Right of the Learner to speak, listen, and be heard. We share examples of democratic commitments and shifts in our own understandings of the role of the teacher and professor. We also discuss the importance of being willing to be with students as they shed the shame that may hav…
“Hide Our Heads in the Sand”
Information avoidance (IA) is a prevalent information behavior that is used by people to understand and act on environmental issues, yet is understudied in the environmental field, leaving us with an incomplete picture of environmental communication processes and outcomes. Compounding this partial knowledge is a lack of research into people’s own conceptions of IA. Considering these issues together calls for exploratory research into people’s liv…
Transgressive translanguaging
Translanguaging in classrooms opens spaces for multilingual students to engage in learning across the full range of their linguistic repertoire. We argue that one result of translanguaging pedagogy is that it can transform the talk-for-learning in the classroom and create a corriente or flow of ideas that is more free and less constrained than traditional classroom interactional patterns. However, what has been lacking in the translanguaging lite…
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros
In this article we theorize the concept of altermundos literacies as they are enacted by parents in transborder families. We demonstrate how these parents, participants in an ethnographic study with mixed-status families in rural Puebla, México, write speculative narratives for their children’s futures in ways that reject mononational norms. Altermundos literacies involve the activation of subaltern knowledges across mononational systems and comp…
Transborder Literacies of (In)Visibility
Drawing from an ethnography with mixed-status families residing in Mexico, we examine what we term transborder literacies of (in)visibility, or diasporic people's innovative interactions around texts that prepare them to move across incompatible mononational institutions divided by borders. Through close attention to the literacy practices families engaged in as they applied for their children's U.S. passports from Mexico, we demonstrate how thes…
Documentation Status and Youth’s Critical Consciousness across Borders
Centering the testimonios of two sets of transborder high school seniors living and learning in Mexico and the U.S., in this article, we draw upon decolonizing approaches to theorize critical consciousness formation for and with students from families with mixed documentation status who cross physical and metaphorical borders. Data come from two larger qualitative studies on immigration and education and demonstrate how young people recognize ine…
Va a Cambiar” - Identifying and Rejecting Border Patrol Pedagogies in a Dual Language Classroom
In this paper we identify, name, and operationalize six borders typically found in school settings that include dual language classrooms: bordered languages, knowledge, content areas, bodies, selves, and teachers. We identify these borders as a point of departure to show an example of how a two-way dual language classroom operated through a form of border-crossing pedagogy that respects children and reveals authentic multilingual learning. We use…
Nací Allá
In this essay, Joanna Dreby, Sarah Gallo, Florencia Silveira, and Melissa Adams-Corral use a transnational frame to explore the meanings of US citizenship for binational children and its importance to experiences of belonging. Drawing on interviews with children ages six to fourteen living with their Mexican-born parents in rural Puebla, their analysis shows that children view US citizenship as signaling their social location in a historically ba…
Television in the age of radio
As 21st century residents, we witness new communication technologies and devices being developed and released to the public in short and increasingly predictable cycles. If there are features and capabilities that don't perform as expected, we consumers expect those refinements to be made in the next iteration of development and present in the next version of the technology. If, for example, our iPhone 5 screen is too small for us, we can just wa…
The role of unrecognized ambivalence
This paper raises some questions about the deleterious effects of unrecognized (unconscious) ambivalence running through child care systems, the Children Act and the adversarial legal system. It is postulated that unrecognized ambivalence may become one of the powerful unconscious dynamics contributing to the mirroring of the family conflicts within the professional network. A detailed clinical example, in which we acted as expert witnesses withi…
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros
In this article we theorize the concept of altermundos literacies as they are enacted by parents in transborder families. We demonstrate how these parents, participants in an ethnographic study with mixed-status families in rural Puebla, México, write speculative narratives for their children’s futures in ways that reject mononational norms. Altermundos literacies involve the activation of subaltern knowledges across mononational systems and comp…
Va a Cambiar” - Identifying and Rejecting Border Patrol Pedagogies in a Dual Language Classroom
In this paper we identify, name, and operationalize six borders typically found in school settings that include dual language classrooms: bordered languages, knowledge, content areas, bodies, selves, and teachers. We identify these borders as a point of departure to show an example of how a two-way dual language classroom operated through a form of border-crossing pedagogy that respects children and reveals authentic multilingual learning. We use…
The role of unrecognized ambivalence
This paper raises some questions about the deleterious effects of unrecognized (unconscious) ambivalence running through child care systems, the Children Act and the adversarial legal system. It is postulated that unrecognized ambivalence may become one of the powerful unconscious dynamics contributing to the mirroring of the family conflicts within the professional network. A detailed clinical example, in which we acted as expert witnesses withi…
Television in the age of radio
As 21st century residents, we witness new communication technologies and devices being developed and released to the public in short and increasingly predictable cycles. If there are features and capabilities that don't perform as expected, we consumers expect those refinements to be made in the next iteration of development and present in the next version of the technology. If, for example, our iPhone 5 screen is too small for us, we can just wa…
Nací Allá
In this essay, Joanna Dreby, Sarah Gallo, Florencia Silveira, and Melissa Adams-Corral use a transnational frame to explore the meanings of US citizenship for binational children and its importance to experiences of belonging. Drawing on interviews with children ages six to fourteen living with their Mexican-born parents in rural Puebla, their analysis shows that children view US citizenship as signaling their social location in a historically ba…
Transborder Literacies of (In)Visibility
Drawing from an ethnography with mixed-status families residing in Mexico, we examine what we term transborder literacies of (in)visibility, or diasporic people's innovative interactions around texts that prepare them to move across incompatible mononational institutions divided by borders. Through close attention to the literacy practices families engaged in as they applied for their children's U.S. passports from Mexico, we demonstrate how thes…
Documentation Status and Youth’s Critical Consciousness across Borders
Centering the testimonios of two sets of transborder high school seniors living and learning in Mexico and the U.S., in this article, we draw upon decolonizing approaches to theorize critical consciousness formation for and with students from families with mixed documentation status who cross physical and metaphorical borders. Data come from two larger qualitative studies on immigration and education and demonstrate how young people recognize ine…
Va a Cambiar” - Identifying and Rejecting Border Patrol Pedagogies in a Dual Language Classroom
In this paper we identify, name, and operationalize six borders typically found in school settings that include dual language classrooms: bordered languages, knowledge, content areas, bodies, selves, and teachers. We identify these borders as a point of departure to show an example of how a two-way dual language classroom operated through a form of border-crossing pedagogy that respects children and reveals authentic multilingual learning. We use…
“Hide Our Heads in the Sand”
Information avoidance (IA) is a prevalent information behavior that is used by people to understand and act on environmental issues, yet is understudied in the environmental field, leaving us with an incomplete picture of environmental communication processes and outcomes. Compounding this partial knowledge is a lack of research into people’s own conceptions of IA. Considering these issues together calls for exploratory research into people’s liv…
Transgressive translanguaging
Translanguaging in classrooms opens spaces for multilingual students to engage in learning across the full range of their linguistic repertoire. We argue that one result of translanguaging pedagogy is that it can transform the talk-for-learning in the classroom and create a corriente or flow of ideas that is more free and less constrained than traditional classroom interactional patterns. However, what has been lacking in the translanguaging lite…
Papeles, Sueños, y Futuros
In this article we theorize the concept of altermundos literacies as they are enacted by parents in transborder families. We demonstrate how these parents, participants in an ethnographic study with mixed-status families in rural Puebla, México, write speculative narratives for their children’s futures in ways that reject mononational norms. Altermundos literacies involve the activation of subaltern knowledges across mononational systems and comp…
Cuentos (In)Creíbles
Through the careful analysis of the border-crossing epistemologies that are collaboratively shared and validated by a fifth grader and ethnographer in liminal classroom spaces, we identify key methodological approaches for researchers working with border crossers to document the co-production of knowledge among researchers and participants, to engage in active reflection with trusted thought partners, and to understand the possibilities for perso…
A community sin vergüenza
This article explores the parallels experienced when pre-service teachers and those teaching multilingual students in elementary school design classroom spaces around the Right of the Learner to speak, listen, and be heard. We share examples of democratic commitments and shifts in our own understandings of the role of the teacher and professor. We also discuss the importance of being willing to be with students as they shed the shame that may hav…
The Irrepressible/Irresponsible Trap
Operation Lone Star (OLS), a state-level effort to fortify the México-U.S. border in Texas, marked an escalation in the U.S. “Prevention Through Deterrence” (PTD) policy. How have politicians and government officials justified the escalation of immigration enforcement tactics despite the futility and lethality of these tools? Our theoretical approach relies on Beltrán’s (2020) critical exploration of migrant cruelty to understand how migrant deat…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)