In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to
the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local
schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they
grapple with issues they encounter. They implore us to feel like an
outsider and see the school as a foreign culture with language and
communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework.
Each chapter begins with a vignette that includes the voices of one or
more members of international migrating families, while introducing the
context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter readers will find
specific implications to consider. These are constructed with preservice
teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind.
As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation.
The families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with
international migrant families and to embrace a risk and resilience
model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us
to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings
and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of
possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.