A Pedagogy of Love in Hostile Times: Immigrant Teachers Resisting with Care

Title
A Pedagogy of Love in Hostile Times: Immigrant Teachers Resisting with Care
Publication Date
2027
Author(s)
Norford, Victoria
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6324-348X
Email: vnorfor2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:vnorfor2
Veliz, Leonardo
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2489-7484
Email: lveliz@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lveliz
Editor
Editor(s): Leonardo Veliz, Paul Meighan, Waqar Ali Shah and Xuesong Gao
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, United kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.4324/9781003630517-11
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/74896
Abstract

As schools become increasingly shaped by global migration, they emerge as contested spaces where cultural diversity coexists with entrenched racialized hierarchies. Within these landscapes, immigrant teachers often face epistemic silencing and symbolic racism that devalues their knowledge, linguistic repertoires, and professional identities. This chapter examines how immigrant teachers actively resist these exclusionary discourses and assert their right to teach, speak, and belong. Rather than being positioned solely as subjects of marginalization, these teachers engage in acts of pedagogical resistance by drawing on a pedagogy of love, an ethical, relational, and justice-oriented approach to teaching. Through counter-narratives and everyday practices, they challenge dominant ideologies rooted in colonial and white supremacist legacies and create more inclusive, affirming spaces for themselves and their students. Using an interpretive qualitative methodology, this study foregrounds the transformative work of immigrant teachers who, despite institutional constraints, advocate for humanizing pedagogies that honor difference, foster belonging, and disrupt normative educational paradigms.

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Citation
The Routledge Handbook of Race and Equity in Applied Linguistics, p. 141-155
ISBN
9781041049081
9781041049135
9781003630517
Start page
141
End page
155

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