Re-Imagining Migration
Ensuring that young people grow up understanding migration as a shared condition of our past, present, and future.
Every day, children in our classrooms navigate multiple contexts—school, home, and neighborhood– each contributing to their understanding of who they are, where they come from, and the roles they might play as members of multiple communities. Immigrant-origin children straddle cultures, languages, dialects, and value systems at home, at school, and in cultural and religious institutions, making their lives particularly rich and complex.
The children of immigrants are one of the fastest-growing sectors of the post-industrial regions of the world, accounting for 27% of children and 33% of all young adults in the US alone. These children, 85% of whom are people of color, are not receiving the education that all children are entitled to live fulfilling lives. At school and in society they meet rising xenophobia, bias, and bullying with long-lasting impact on their growth.
Most importantly, they meet educators who wish they had better preparation to teach in such culturally, linguistically, economically, and religiously diverse contexts, able to nurture young people to live and thrive in a world of growing diversity, complexity and mobility.
Responding to this need, the Re-Imagining Migration project at Project Zero is a pedagogical research initiative dedicated to advancing educational frameworks, pedagogies, and tools that practitioners can use to prepare all youth for a world on the move. Our research informs the work of educators in schools, cultural institutions, refugee centers and teacher education context. In this work we collaborate closely with the Immigration Initiative at Harvard and an external nonprofit Re-Imagining Migration.
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Thank You to Our Funders
This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Smithsonian Institute, Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study at Harvard University, NoVo Foundation, and Regents of the University of California Los Angeles.