Soudeh Oladi

Immigrant Student Experiences in Canada

Mothers and Children Storying Belonging

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book centers immigrant children s school experiences as recounted and interpreted by their mothers, exposing how racialization, exclusion, and proximity to Whiteness shape their realities in Canadian schools. Drawing from Afro-Caribbean, Ghanaian, Indian, Afghan, and Chinese communities, mothers emerge as critical knowledge holders, sharing their children's stories to disrupt institutional erasure. Part One s two chapters reveal how Canadian schools enact symbolic multiculturalism while reinforcing linguistic conformity and Eurocentric norms, reframing identity, belonging, and home through mothers stories. Part Two s four chapters present mothers and children s experiences capturing subversive resistance, intergenerational tensions, trauma, invisibility, and affirmation. The concluding chapter frames storytelling as epistemic resistance, grounding immigrant families' wisdom as essential to transforming education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-93683-8
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9783031936838
• ISBN-10: 3031936833
• Artikelnr.: 73892532

Autorenporträt

Soudeh Oladi is a scholar in education and equity studies, specializing in immigrant students' schooling and identity formation. Her research examines racialized educational structures through anti-racist, decolonial frameworks, and intersectional storytelling.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Mapping Post-Migration Experiences: Mothers and Sorties.- 3. Mother Warriors Witnessing Black Childhood: Surveillance, Subversion, and Storytelling.- 4. Accented Othering and Traces of the Colonial Legacy: Narratives of Indian Immigrant K-5 Students.- 5. Hiding in Plain Sight: Proximity to Whiteness and the Chinese Immigrant Experience.- 6. Traces of Trauma: Afghan Mothers as Cultural Custodians and Carriers of Their Children s Stories.- 7. Conclusion Forever Migrants: Mothers, Students, Stories.