Who Can Stay Here?: Confronting Issues of Documentation and Citizenship in Children's Literature

Autor/in	Cornell, Grace
Titel	Who Can Stay Here?: Confronting Issues of Documentation and Citizenship in Children's Literature
Quelle	In: Rethinking Schools, 25 (2010) 1, S.32-37 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-6855
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Citizenship; Picture Books; Immigrants; Undocumented Immigrants; Immigration; Reading Aloud to Others; Group Discussion; California; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Staatsbürgerschaft; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Illegaler Aufenthalt; Gruppendiskussion; Kalifornien; USA
Abstract	Picture books about immigration and citizenship rarely portray the issues that children from immigrant families face every day. Though many of these books dealt with border crossings, very few addressed issues of documentation and unequal access to citizenship in any meaningful way. Also, although there are many children's books that deal with the experiences of Asian and Latin American (specifically Mexican) immigrants, there is a paucity of literature that tells the stories of immigrants from other places in the world, such as Africa or the Middle East. The author urges teachers to seek out books that do represent these populations when building their classroom libraries, especially books that choose to tackle the difficult issues surrounding immigration status and citizenship. This is especially important if immigrant students are to recognize that they are not the only ones who face struggles in the United States--that many different groups share similar experiences and that this may in turn be due to the existence of larger systemic injustices. This article presents a framework to help teachers choose books and open discussion. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10