Hybrid Citizenship: Latina Youth and the Politics of Belonging

Drawing from interview data collected from high school students in Broward County, Florida, this article explores how eight adolescent Latinas understand citizenship and belonging vis-à-vis circulating images and discourses on Latina/o immigration, immigrant, and Latina. The author examines Latina y...

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Published in:The High School journal 2015-06, Vol.98 (4), p.353-373
Main Author: Bondy, Jennifer M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Adolescents
Belonging
Children
Children & youth
Citizenship
Citizenship Education
Community Relations
Cultural Differences
Cultural identity
Curricula
Educational Practices
Ethnic Stereotypes
Ethnicity
Feminist anthropology
Florida
Globalization
High School Students
Hispanic American Students
Hispanic American teenagers
Hispanic American youth
Hispanics
Identification (Psychology)
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration policy
Nation states
Noncitizens
Questionnaires
Race
Research Design
Researchers
Semi Structured Interviews
Social Attitudes
Social Bias
Social Influences
Social Studies
Society
Students
Studies
Surveillance
Surveys
Teenage girls
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Summary:Drawing from interview data collected from high school students in Broward County, Florida, this article explores how eight adolescent Latinas understand citizenship and belonging vis-à-vis circulating images and discourses on Latina/o immigration, immigrant, and Latina. The author examines Latina youths' citizenship identities and belonging using the conceptual frameworks of transnationalism, cultural citizenship, and hyphenated selves. The author demonstrates how first-, second-, and third-generation Latina youths' citizenship identities and belonging are continuously shaped by dominant discourses and stereotypical images while at the same time are responses that modify, resist, or echo these discourses and images. The insights of the adolescent Latinas point to theoretical and practical implications that could improve citizenship education in the context of globalization and transnational migration.
ISSN:0018-1498
1534-5157
1534-5157
DOI:10.1353/hsj.2015.0012