Transborder Literacies of (In)Visibility

Bibliographic Data

ID21650260
AuthorsSarah Gallo (0000-0002-1775-6854, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, corresponding author), Melissa Adams Corral (0000-0003-4529-1203, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Year2023
Volume55
Issue1
Pages101-123
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Reading Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4111 • E-ISSN: 1554-8430
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1086296x231163127
OpenAlexW4327605599
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited29

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 these literacies were not just about expanding authentic ways of reading and writing to include both U.S. and Mexican ways, but instead required unique transborder literacies across mutually unintelligible, racializing mononational systems so that children could (re)access their rights on both sides of the border. We argue that recognizing families’ complex transborder literacy practices of (in)visibility could offer a novel anti-oppressive lens to transform how educators make sense of the complexity of immigrant families’ literacies, movements, and educational supports across borders and national schooling systems

Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Literacy · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Visibility · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy

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