Special issue of TLA: Teaching Migration

Teaching & Learning Anthropology is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue on Teaching Migration. An introduction from editor Angela C. Jenks can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5070/T33149095.

Table of Contents:

• In “Reading Alex E. Chávez’s Sounds of Crossing,” Alyshia Gálvez and her students describe collaborative approaches to reading that make anthropological scholarship on migration accessible and meaningful to students who are new to the field. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33143605
• In “Judging Extreme Hardship,” Jennifer Cook offers an in-class activity in which students assume the role of an immigration judge, learning to think critically about the discursive frames that underlie dominant narratives about immigrants in the US. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146977
• In “Designing an Assignment on Undocumented Migration,” Evin Rodkey seeks to challenge criminalizing narratives that can prevent students from engaging in complex analyses of undocumented migration. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33147074
• In “Teaching Im/Migration through an Ethnographic Portrait Project,” Jennifer Guzmán, Melanie Medeiros, and Gwendolyn Faulkner present an interview assignment designed to help students better understand and empathize with the experience of migration. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146968
• In “Telling Migration Stories,” Caitlin Fouratt describes an assignment in which students interview each other about family migration stories. The exercise foregrounds the expertise of first-gen and undocumented students. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146868
• An essay written by Idalia Mora in response to Fouratt’s assignment is published in the Student Showcase: https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146981…
• In “Project- and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning,” Brandon Lundy and colleagues describe their experiences conducting research on the experiences of Cabo Verdean immigrants through the Diplomacy Lab. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146972
• In “Offering Informal Education in Public Libraries through Exhibit Design,” Daniel Ginsberg describes the development of the American Anthropological Association’s forthcoming World on the Move exhibit and the role public libraries can play in community-based education and engagement. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33147071
• Melissa Gauthier reviews the film Border South/Frontera Sur, directed by Raúl O. Paz Pastrana. The review is available in both English (https://doi.org/10.5070/T33148635…) and Spanish (https://doi.org/10.5070/T33148659…).