“Half of myself is—feels German”

Storying Migrationshintergrund teachers’ hybrid identities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21747148
AutoresNicanora Wächter (Ludwigsburg University of Education), Sue Sala (0000-0002-0007-7062, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, autor correspondente), Marco Barbone-Maafi (Heidelberg University)
Ano2025
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas137-151
Data de publicação2025-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1550-5170 • E-ISSN: 2156-8154
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15505170.2023.2217779
OpenAlexW4379880102
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas37

Romeo Garavaglia (a pseudonym), whose East German mother married his Italian father and later his Bosnian Muslim stepfather, did not look un-German; and, in fact he was German—or a perpetual foreigner—depending on the circumstances of his daily interactions. In this article, the authors story a suite of in-depth interviews to theorize how Garavaglia’s Migrationshintergrund [immigrant background] identity played out in his professional trajectory into teaching. Our analysis suggests that foreignness in a German context does not only entail the color of one’s skin. Rather, the construct of Migrationshintergrund also implies the hereditary impossibility of entering the educated middle class. Leveraging Garavaglia’s story as a synecdoche for the complex experiences of other transnational professionals in and outside Germany, we argue the role of schools and schooling in perpetuating economic marginalization and social imaginaries of difference in “post-racial” contemporary societies

Aesthetics · Art · Bosnian · German · Political science · Pseudonym · Sociology · Synecdoche · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · History · Law