[Xmca-l] Re: Research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral Participation?

[Helena Worthen]

Alfredo — Try turning the question around: how does CHAT surface (make visible to the researcher) the activities that are taking place in a community of practice where people are fighting oppression and de-humanisation? What are these people doing to carry on the fight?

CHAT’s power to reveal conflict and contradiction comes into play here. 

This is an issue that kept rising and then sinking during  the consensus points discussion for Re-Gen.


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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 7:18 AM, Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@ils.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> Just to add, that the problem I'd like to learn more about is, how does a framework that takes apprenticeship and community as starting point help when the object of research is one that concerns oppression and dehumanisation? 
> 
> Alfredo
> 
> 
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@ils.uio.no>
> Sent: 27 June 2019 02:37
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral Participation?
>  
> I cannot help with this, Greg, since I don't know of work specifically connecting the two. But if your student gets to write about that, I'd be very interested in reading her/his work.
> 
> A few days ago, I was listening Amy Goodman's interview with a lawyer who visited children detention centres in the US border. I literally cried as I was commuting to work listening to the horrendous inhumanity being described. 
> 
> (Interview here:) https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/6/24 <https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/6/24> 
> 
> Now, reading your question, I wondered, what is "legitimate participation" for a child in a detention center? What is the center and what the periphery in such a context? And for a Syrian refugee in a shelter in Turkey? Is there anything like a community of practice that belongs to being a refugee or immigrant?
> 
> Not that I am sceptical about or questioning the relevance of the approach to the issue. Just that I don't know how, would like to know. 
> 
> Best,​
> Alfredo
> 
> 
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
> Sent: 26 June 2019 18:23
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral Participation?
>  
> Just wondering if anyone out there could point me to research on refugees/immigrants/migrants and Legitimate Peripheral Participation (or otherwise connect the former with Lave and Wenger's communities of practice)?
> 
> (this is for a student of mine)
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 
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