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Ariana Mangual Figueroa, IRT ‘ 00 shares commentary on her first book KNOWING SILENCE: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School published by the University of Minnesota Press.

There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. In Knowing Silence, Ariana Mangual Figueroa challenges this “myth of ignorance.” By listening carefully to both the speech and significant silences of six Latina students from mixed-immigration-status families, from elementary school into middle school and beyond, she reveals the complex ways young people understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives.

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First Book by Ariana Mangual Figueroa, IRT ’00 Challenges “Myth of Ignorance”