A Dialectic of Dreams and Dispossession: The School-to-Sweatshop Pipeline

SMC Author

David Quijada

SMC Affiliated Work

1

Status

Faculty

School

School of Liberal Arts

Department

Ethnic Studies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication / Conference / Sponsorship

Cultural Geographies

Description/Abstract

Engaging the contradictions of global restructuring that produce the school-to-sweatshop pipeline for undocumented students, our analysis makes visible the relationship between racialized cultural practices of exclusion in educational spaces and the production of ‘illegality’. Our theorizing draws upon participatory action research with intergenerational community partnerships based in Salt Lake City, Utah, that share commitments to the collective participation and action of those most affected by the ‘intimate dispossessions’ of capital accumulation. In our inquiry, we attend to the places and practices of social reproduction – the school, family and home – mining the loopholes of policy and the contours of subjectivity to uncover the critical potential of everyday struggles.

Scholarly

yes

DOI

10.1177/1474474015597431

Volume

23

Issue

1

First Page

121

Last Page

137

Disciplines

Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Original Citation

Cahill, C., Alvarez Gutiérrez, L. & Quijada Cerecer, D. A., (2015). A dialectic of dreams and dispossession: the school-to-sweatshop pipeline. Cultural Geographies, 1-17, doi: 10.1177/1474474015597431

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