Event Details
calendar_todayTuesday 18 June 2024
schedule 5:00PM - 6:30PM
location_onRecital Room, The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, 3 Hereford Street, Christchurch City
paidFree
About the Event
Hosted by Drs. Mahdis Azarmandi and Sara Tolbert, Te Kaupeka Ako Faculty of Education, and made possible by the UC Erskine/Canterbury Fellowship Programme.
Spaces of Inhabitance: Where, When, and With Whom, Refugees/(Im)migrants Engage in Education
Presenter: Jill Koyama
Abstract
In this public talk, I’ll explore the ways in which refugees/(im)migrants aim to develop identities and make spaces for themselves, and their families, within formal and non-formal education contexts in the United States. Informed by fifteen years of collaborative academic and community work with refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants in the United States, I situate refugee/(im)migrant narratives within the broader ongoing projects of coloniality, capitalism, and modernity. Within these frames of contemporary interrogation and historical understandings, I will speak to the active nature of the colonizing relationships that position refugees/(im)migrants as racialized “others” and highlight how this othering is situationally resisted. Specifically, I will offer examples of refugees/(im)migrants working to make, unmake, and remake familial, communal, national, and transnational connections within and across educational contexts. I’ll conclude the talk with an open conversation about the dismantling work needed to move through to what’s next and what’s possible in the education of refugee/(im)migrants.
About Jill Koyama, Visiting Canterbury Fellow
Jill Koyama, a cultural anthropologist, serves as Vice Dean of the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation in Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. She previously held the positions of Professor and Director in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Arizona’s College of Education and served as Director of UA’s Education Policy Center and the Institute for LGBT Studies. She studies: the productive social assemblage of policy; the controversies of globalizing educational policy; and the politics of immigrant and refugee education. It centers on how, even under dire circumstances and inhospitable politics, displaced people access and create resource-rich networks, make learning-centered spaces for themselves and their families, and take civic action in the United States.
Making Failure Pay: High-Stakes Testing, For-Profit Tutoring, and Public Schools, Jill’s 2010 book, was published by The University of Chicago Press and her 2014 co-edited volume, US Education in a World of Migration: Implications for Policy and Practice was released by Routledge Press. Her scholarship appears in several journals, including American Journal of Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Educational Policy, and Educational Researcher. She is the Editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly and has served as Associate Editor and board member on several journals. Jill has received multiple awards for her research, teaching, and leadership. Most recently, she was honored with the 2020 Lydia Kennedy LGBTQ+ Leadership Award from University of Arizona Health Services and the 2024 Faculty Mentor Award, Division G: Social Context, American Educational Research Association.
- All welcome. No need to register.
- Doors will open at 4:45pm and the lecture will begin at 5pm.