Learning in Transit

Crossing Borders, Waiting, and Waiting to Cross

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ID5933489
AuthorsMichelle Bellino (0000-0001-5843-0001, University of Michigan), Max Gluckman (0000-0003-4165-5559, International Research & Exchanges Board), Maxie Gluckman (International Research & Exchanges Board, Washington, DC 20005, USA)
Year2024
Volume13
Issue2
Pages121
Publication date2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci13020121
OpenAlexW4391931931
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited66

Recent U.S. policy changes have contributed to longer waiting periods for migrant families in Mexican border cities. This study centers on four Honduran families enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, also referred to as 'Remain in Mexico,' while undergoing prolonged waiting periods in the Mexican border town of Monterrey, Nuevo Léon. Centering on young people's voices, we ask what they learn during this prolonged period of transit. Through ethnographic and digital participatory storytelling interviews, we illustrate how children learned about the politics of border crossing through fraught interactions with im/migration officials, prolonged periods of immobility, and evolving understandings of legality. Building on theories of 'border thinking' and 'politicized funds of knowledge,' we highlight ways that young people employed their evolving understandings of national borders and the legal contours of their transborder asylum process, while protecting themselves and their families from danger and discrimination. We argue that transit is not simply time that young people are forced to endure; rather, the experience of forced transit is constitutive of young people's learning about state power and their evolving understanding of borders, rights, and belonging

Public transport · Transit (satellite · Transport engineering · Computer Science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Engineering · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology

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