Current Initiatives and Research

Students:

Department of Education Policy Studies (EDPS)

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Ranetta Hardin, University of Maryland
 Narrating an Interstitial Space: How African-American Youth Construct Their Lives in an Inner-City Boarding School
This qualitative study focuses on the experiences of African-American students in an inner-city public charter boarding school and presents the narratives of the spaces between home, neighborhood, and boarding school life as they construct their lives of perpetual movement and dislocation.

Tomoko Tokunaga, University of Maryland
“I’m not Going to Be in Japan Forever”: Navigating the Meaning of “Home” of Filipina Immigrant Youth in Japan
Approximately 80% of Filipino immigrants in Japan are women who entered Japan either under the immigration status of “entertainers” or as spouses of Japanese men. This presentation focuses on the border crossing experiences of the Filipino-born children of these Filipina migrant workers. These children, who are crossers of national, psychological, sexual, generational, class and cultural borders, are struggling to find, build, define, and (re)imagine “home” in this borderland existence.

 

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