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Projects with Promise

Vol. 28 No. 4

Community Engagement on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Nepantla Identity as Justice-Oriented Citizenship

  • Naomi Fertman
  • Sarah De Los Santos Upton
Submitted
April 8, 2023
Published
2024-12-16

Abstract

Previous research has highlighted best practices for community engagement, problematized server/served approaches to communities, and identified both barriers and benefits for students engaged in this coursework. What is lacking, however, is a deeper examination of students who participate in community engagement in their own home communities. The purpose of our study is to better understand the impact and outcomes of community-engaged coursework through the lens of our students’ intersectional identities. We argue that their unique social positions as both students and community members on the Mexico–U.S. border offer a window into understanding how students may participate in community-engaged coursework differently when they are members of the communities they are engaging with.