{"pk":42106,"title":"Telling Migration Stories: Course Connections and Building Classroom Community","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This commentary shares an assignment on family migration stories from an upper-division undergraduate course on global migration. The assignment, which asks students to interview each other about their family migration histories and then analyze their partner’s story, requires students to apply course readings to the real-world context of their peers’ experiences. The commentary provides an overview of the assignment and challenges students encountered. I also highlight the lessons learned, both in terms of course content and classroom community. The large public teaching university where I work is a Hispanic-serving institution and is home to around 1,000 undocumented students. Many more students are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Bringing in students’ personal experiences with migration serves to build academic confidence and classroom community among these mostly first-generation students while building connections among students and setting the tone for the course as a whole. It positions students as experts and valuable members of our classroom learning community, while recognizing the importance of their experiences with issues of culture and identity, xenophobia, transnational family-life, immigration enforcement, and immigration status. The assignment also disrupts narrow assimilationist narratives of migration by highlighting the diversity of students’ migration histories.","language":"EN","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":": family migration"},{"word":"storytelling"},{"word":"class community"},{"word":"first-generation students"}],"section":"Commentaries","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bv3d6c5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Caitlin","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Fouratt","name_suffix":"","institution":"California State University, Long Beach","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-02-07T11:32:54-05:00","date_accepted":"2020-02-07T11:32:54-05:00","date_published":"2020-07-15T03:00:00-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/teachinglearninganthro/article/42106/galley/31443/download/"}]}