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Dreby, Joanna; Gallo, Sarah; Silveira, Florencia; Adams-Corral, Melissa – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Joanna Dreby, Sarah Gallo, Florencia Silveira, and Melissa Adams-Corral use a transnational frame to explore the meanings of US citizenship for binational children and its importance to experiences of belonging. Drawing on interviews with children ages six to fourteen living with their Mexican-born parents in rural Puebla, their…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Mexican Americans, Children, Early Adolescents
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Gallo, Sarah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2016
This article draws from an ethnography on Mexican immigrant fathers and their children to examine humor in immigration narratives as acts of resistance. The analysis focuses on the devices employed by a father and daughter during their everyday talk and co-narration of an incident with police officers. Findings illustrate how the form and content…
Descriptors: Humor, Fathers, Daughters, Racial Discrimination
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Arango, Obed; Flores, Sofia; Gallo, Sarah; Lara, María; Link, Holly; Arreguín, Diana; Peregrina, Itzel – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
In this article a group of seven Latina/o immigrants, parents, advocates, and ethnographers draw on critical race theory to explore what it means to co-present on, and engage in, difficult conversations about immigration and documentation status. We theorize how, through critical collaboration motivated by our joint presentation, we co-constructed…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Critical Theory, Race
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Gallo, Sarah; Link, Holly – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
Drawing primarily on interview data from a 5-year ethnography on the school experiences of Mexican immigrant children in a New Latino Diaspora community, we explore how their teachers understood and responded to increasing deportation-based immigration practices affecting children's lives. We illustrate how teachers fell along a continuum…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Immigration, Hispanic American Students, Undocumented Immigrants
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Gallo, Sarah; Link, Holly – Harvard Educational Review, 2015
In this article, Sarah Gallo and Holly Link draw on a five-year ethnographic study of Latina/o immigrant children and their elementary schooling to examine the complexities of how children, teachers, and families in a Pennsylvania town navigate learning within a context of unprecedented deportations. Gallo and Link focus on the experiences and…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Public Policy
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Gallo, Sarah – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Drawing from an ethnographic study on Mexican immigrant fathers and their second-grade children, this article examines the masked realities behind current immigration policies that equate "illegal" with "Mexican immigrant" and how the enforcement of these policies, which overwhelmingly target Mexican immigrant men, affect…
Descriptors: Immigration, Law Enforcement, Foreign Policy, Gender Bias