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- Title
Paperwork Selves and Arab Refugee Girls' Experiences of Resettlement in Tennessee.
- Authors
Leggett, Ida Fadzillah
- Abstract
For refugees, the experience of displacement does not always end with resettlement. Multidisciplinary research with educators and refugee students at a Tennessee high school demonstrates how some school personnel prioritized the alienating concept of so-called paperwork selves when talking about their refugee students, highlighting exotic stereotypes of innocence, ignorance, and a lack of educational history. I focus here on educators' perceptions of Arabic-speaking refugee girl students, and contrast these with the girls' own words about their experiences and self-understanding. The girls' narratives demonstrate their keen sense of identity as young women connected to real places, remembered histories, and imaginaries of a future as transnational young women with global possibilities.
- Subjects
TENNESSEE; REFUGEE children; LAND settlement; YOUNG women; SELF; SCHOOL employees; FEMININE identity
- Publication
Girlhood Studies, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1938-8209
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ghs.2024.170106