ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the “colonial present” in the United States shapes the curricular experiences of immigrant and refugee students. It draws on their respective ethnographic studies, one with Palestinian immigrant and the other with Cambodian refugee youth. Language is one aspect of social context in which inequalities are culturally reproduced, which is key for how transnational dynamics shape migrant experience. Transnationalism represents an emerging social morphology that is increasingly shaped by vast networks that have physical and virtual dimensions, as information, capital, ideas, and people move with increasing fluidity across space and time. A focus on transnationalism brings attention to non-state actors, stretching analytically cross-political borders of nation-states. The chapter focuses on global migration and transnationalism offer a glimpse into the ways in which scholars take up some of the many questions of educational experience and cultural practice. Transnationalism is also facilitating the strengthening of ties among Indigenous peoples and movements across the globe.
