Problematizing Immigration Restrictions during COVID-19 in the Social Studies Classroom

McCorkle, William

doi:10.46303/ressat.05.03.1

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“…This paper reviewed a number of articles in an attempt to understand the challenges and response to the effects of COVID-19 on the education sector. Silumba and Chibango (2020), XinhuaNet (2020), Mandikiana (2020), Dube (2020) and Matimaire (2020), among others, agree that the COVID-19-induced problems in education had a similar pattern throughout the world (McCorkle, 2020;Novikov, 2020;Tarman, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Covid-19 and the entrenchment of a virtual Elite private school: Rethinking education policies in Zimbabwe

Hove

Dube

2021

JCVE

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By using a critical emancipatory research framework, this theoretical paper discusses the COVID-19-induced commercialisation of the education system in Zimbabwe. It argues that COVID-19 exposed and widened the digital gap between privileged and underprivileged learners, regardless of the learners’ geographical location. The digitalisation of the education space –in adherence to World Health Organization’s COVID-19 guidelines – has resulted in the creation of virtual elite schools. Learners from privileged families found sanctuary in digital learning, whilst underprivileged learners continue to be exposed to the reality of commercialised education. This trend has revealed educational inequalities between privileged and underprivileged learners. The paper answers two major questions: 1. What are the inequalities that were reintroduced by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Zimbabwean education system? and 2. How effective is stakeholders’ response to COVID-19-induced inequalities? The paper argues that COVID-19 has dashed the hopes of free education for all, by creating a digital gap that perpetuates and entrenches inequalities in relation to learners. In light of these findings, the study suggests that education stakeholders invest in digital infrastructure, with special attention being paid to learners’ economic status, as opposed to their geographical location.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Covid-19 and the entrenchment of a virtual Elite private school: Rethinking education policies in Zimbabwe

Hove

Dube

2021

JCVE

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“…The process of ethnic identity construction is dynamic and changes according to the period and the immigration target. An immigrant's ethnic identity is constructed by the absorbing society, which ascribes him or her to a particular social group in the proximal host society, simultaneously creating changes in an immigrant's attitudes toward himself (Lev-Ari, 2010;McCorkle, 2020;Portes & Rumbaut, 2001). An immigrant's encounters with new people, institutions, and spaces create opportunities to re-examine his identity (Liebkind, 2006).…”

Section: Ethnic Identity Of the 15 Generationmentioning

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Between Cultures and Generations: Ethnic Activism of 1.5 Generation Immigrant Leaders

Sharaby

2021

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This article discusses ethnic activism in advancing a religious holiday in the absorbing society among 1.5 generation social-political activists who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia. The findings show that syncretism was created in the identity, and in the organization and leadership patterns of the Ethiopian leaders that reflected their goals. By displaying symbols of their ethnic identity, they struggled over the right of their excluded minority group to ethnic otherness and its inclusion in the collective space. They stressed the importance of these ethnic celebrations as a factor that unifies the people and the symmetry of this unity. They served as a bridge between generations, between tradition and modernity, and between the absorbing and the absorbed. The article supplies essential insights on how young leaders use their ethnic tradition as a resource for the recruitment of cultural, social, and political capital for uniting a minority group and integrating it into society.

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“…The effect of acculturation is not only visible on the outside but also the psychological and physical well-being of the immigrants themselves (Kovacev & Shute, 2010;Lopez-Class et al, 2011;Rosenthal, 2018;Torres et al, 2012;Urzua et al, 2017). Several studies focusing on immigrant-related issues and their implications towards the mental aspect of their well-being helped to draw to this conclusion (Balidemaj & Small, 2019;Beiser & Hou, 2017;Cleary et al, 2018;Cooper et al, 2019;George et al, 2015;McCorkle, 2020;Schotte et al, 2018;Steel et al, 2017). Moreover, it was evident from past literatures that the immigrants as ethnic minority show difference in their focal psychology compared to the ethnic majority who live in the country (Akinsola, 2020;El-Bouhaddani et al, 2019;Masud, 2020;Nielsen et al, 2018).…”

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One Year is Not Enough to Adapt with a New Traditional Culture: Looking into the Cultural Heritage Elements and Practices Among Immigrants in Malaysia

Yusoff¹,

Hashim²,

Kuay³

et al. 2020

J Ethn Cult Stud

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Adapting to a new traditional cultural environment has noteworthy implications for emotional manifestations, especially among immigrants who migrated to a new place. This study aimed to examine the effect of living duration (one-year cut-off period) among immigrants in Malaysia on their emotional manifestation towards the traditional culture of the ethnic majority. This study also examined the element of cultural items (games, clothes, or food) most affected during their adaptation in the new traditional culture environment. About 119 international graduate students (male; n=72, 61%) from a public university in West Malaysia who met the inclusion criteria took part in this cross-sectional study. They were selected using convenient sampling method. Using visualisation approach, two groups of immigrants with different living duration (less than a year versus a year or more) were asked to respond to the pictures of Malay traditional items (traditional food, game and clothes) that were projected onto the screen. While viewing the pictures, participants rated their emotional state of valence from one (low valence/high pleasantness) to nine (high valence/high pleasantness) according to the non-verbal pictorial measure of Self-Assessment Manikin Scale. Socio-demographic and acculturation scores were also collected. The study found the one-year duration of living in the country as insufficient for the immigrants to adapt to the new cultural environment. Traditional food seems to be the most affected cultural item. The tendency of immigrants to practice the Malay tradition explained 4% of the variance of immigrants’ emotional manifestation towards Malay traditional food. To conclude, the duration of living in a country is crucial to adapt to a new traditional culture. Unsurprisingly perhaps, traditional food in the particular country brought more emotional property than other cultural items.

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Problematizing Immigration Restrictions during COVID-19 in the Social Studies Classroom

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Covid-19 and the entrenchment of a virtual Elite private school: Rethinking education policies in Zimbabwe

Covid-19 and the entrenchment of a virtual Elite private school: Rethinking education policies in Zimbabwe

Between Cultures and Generations: Ethnic Activism of 1.5 Generation Immigrant Leaders

One Year is Not Enough to Adapt with a New Traditional Culture: Looking into the Cultural Heritage Elements and Practices Among Immigrants in Malaysia

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