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Imagining “Back Home” in an era of Homeland (In)security: Palestinian American youth, education and the “War on Terror

A lecture by Thea Abu El-Haj, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

Friday, January 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
3340 Moore Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 

Anchored by an ethnographic account of how Palestinian American youth experience and navigate the politics of citizenship and belonging in their everyday lives in school, this talk explores broader questions about education, nationalism and citizenship in relation to both transnational communities and the United States’s “war on terror.” The ethnographic account shows how Palestinian American youth lay claim to transnational forms of citizenship that help them to mobilize economic, political and social rights across international borders, even as they encounter a complex and nuanced set of ideologies and practices that position them outside the boundaries of U.S. national belonging.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Hanna Petro
Tel: (310) 825-1181
hpetro@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes

Sponsor(s): UCLA International Institute, Program on International Migration, Division of Social Sciences