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Reva Jaffe-Walter is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Research Faculty serving in the Teacher Education and Development Ph.D program. Using the lenses of educational anthropology, Jaffe-Walter's scholarship focuses on how public schools can foster opportunity for immigrant youth. Through comparative international ethnographic research in schools serving immigrant youth in Europe and the United States, she explores questions related to how schools provide access to educational resources, promote feelings of belonging or marginalization, and support post-secondary transitions. Engaging the anthropology of policy, her research has focused on how nationalist and neoliberal policies materialize and are resisted by school leaders, teachers and youth in schools serving immigrant youth.

Given that immigrant youth are often spoken ‘about’, as subjects of national concern or hope, her work seeks to amplify youth voices to better understand their transnational forms of belonging, critical counter narratives to racialization, and visions of what it means to be human in an increasingly dehumanizing context. Finally, her scholarship is focused on developing qualitative methodologies that deepen our understanding of young peoples lived experiences of racialization and educational desire.

Her work has been published in journals such as Teachers College Record, The Harvard Educational Review and Race, Ethnicity and Education. Her book Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism and the Schooling of Muslim Youth was published in 2016 with Stanford University Press.

Specialization

Immigration and Schooling
Anthropology of Policy
Qualitative Research Methods, Ethnography, Action Research

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