Project Title: MIGRACIONES Y ESPACIOS TRANSNACIONALES DE EDUCACION: CONSTRUCCION DE LA IDENTIDAD DE LAS NIÑAS Y PARENTALIDAD EN LAS FAMILIAS MARROQUIES, PAKISTANIES Y SENEGAMBIANAS EN ESPAÑA
Project Aims & Objectives:
This research project analyses how transnational educational spaces contribute to the construction of cultural and social identities of girls from Moroccan, Pakistani, and Senegalese families and the influence that parenting has on this process, in the context of migratory and social transformation in Spain. Our research on the educational continuity and success of girls from muslim immigrant families has highlighted the importance of intra-family negotiations in order to move between the family and/or community space (muslim) and the school and academic space (secular). For this reason, we believe it is essential to understand how girls’ identities are constructed from an early age in intra-family relationships, since these will enable greater or lesser flexibility in their career choices. To approach this issue, the theoretical framework is articulated from the interrelationship between the following bodies of knowledge: (1) migration studies and transnational feminism, which link social transformations with cultural hybridations and identities formed in educational and care relationships; (2) anthropology of education, since gender roles and controls are essential in the formation, maintenance and change of ethnic-social borders, for example, in the resistance to cultural assimilation through the reaffirmation of gender roles or the gender control of girls and women considered as part of the group; and, (3) postcolonial feminist theories and masculinity studies, because exploring the contemporary subjectivities of girls as subordinates and their families implies avoiding the imposition of universal stories in order to address singularities and differences
Scholars/Institutions: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Start Date: July 1, 2016
End Date: 06/30/2019
Research Methods: Ethnographic methods
Findings/Outcomes:
NA
Project Webpage: https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/es/projects/migraciones-y-espacios-transnacionales-de-educaci%C3%B3n-construcci%C3%B3n--4
Funding Institution: Agencia Española de Investigación
Funding Information: 56255
Keywords: Education; migrations; social change; gender; identities; transnationalization
Country of Publication:
Spain
