Inclusion and Engagement: Digital Stories as Passports to Citizenship

The demands for recognition [by immigrants or cultural minorities] is given urgency by the supposed links between recognition and identity, where this latter term designates something like a person's understanding of who they are, of their fundamental defining characteristics as a human being. The thesis is that our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence, often by the 'misrecognition' of others, and so a person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a confining or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. ….misrecognition shows not just a lack of due respect. It can inflict a grievous wound, saddling its victims with a crippling self-hatred. Due recognition is not just a courtesy we owe people. It is a vital human need.

Charles Taylor

The Politics of Recognition

Pecan Sheller’s Strike, 193812,000 mostly Latina workers stage3 month Strike against poor wages andworking conditions, changes the politicalclimate of South Texas to favor Latinocivic and electoral participation

International Hotel 1977Thousands of people resist eviction of elderly Filipinos

Teatro Campesino’s Los VendidosTheater for migrant farmworkers

What Stories Can Do• Support community development, giving voice to

the full range of youth and youth groups that weave social fabric and build community life.

• Enable democratic activism, youth stories play a critical role in helping to engage a larger public in social agencies, think of the role of youth and their stories in the Arab Spring

• Drive citizen journalism, allowing youth to bring policy questions to life and enabling them to see themselves as part of history.

• Support a real national conversation, using stories in social networks to raise and address urgent issues.

• Heal trauma, young people that are survivors of personal or social trauma, learn to reframe memories as bridges to empowerment and tools for promoting human rights.

• Promote public health, where youth stories of environmental and behavioral problems serve to reframe private troubles as public issues that can be addressed.

ConfidenceDaga Abdulla

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