Working with Youth Counternarratives: Enjoining Transnational Youth Displacements, Sociopolitical Belonging, and Indigenous Scholarship.

The lives of minoritized migrant youth are marked—although distinctly—by histories and contemporary practices of exclusion. As subjects who are refused (or refuse) recognition as members of settler-colonial or postcolonial states, these youth often contend with disaffection within the spaces where their lives unfold. Informed by a research collaboration with migrant newcomer youth in France, this article engages autobiographical histories and Indigenous theoretical frames to explore how critical youth-directed research may enable new relationalities and youth political subjectivities. The consonant experiences and histories of migration that emerged in this research—in discussions of displacement, surveillance, reorientation, and movements through school spaces—raise questions of what approaches to research on youth political subjectivities are needed when disaffection and displacement are shared conditions. Exploring these questions with migrant newcomer youth yields insights on how research can constitute a terrain for imagining new relationalities and possibilities of belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]