I Don't Want to Claim America”
African Refugee Girls and Discourses of Othering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Boutwell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2015.080208 |
| OpenAlex | W2326270955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In this article I draw from the Imani Nailah Project, a participatory action research initiative with a group of African refugee girls living in the US. I examine a particular fusion of racialized, gendered, and nationalized narratives that discursively construct the refugee girl. I interrogate this discursively produced refugee girl construct and highlight how actual refugee girls interact with this discourse with a focus on resistance strategies and emergent counter narratives of citizenship. Throughout the article, I use italics when I am referring to the refugee girl construct in order to maintain a central focus on interrogating a sociopolitical discourse—the refugee girl—as a construct distinct from actual refugee girls. My central aim is to highlight spaces and moments when actual refugee girls are in conversation with this imposed refugee girl discourse
Citizenship · Construct (python library · Conversation · Developmental psychology · Girl · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |