Development, Boston College. A linguistic anthropologist and educational ethnographer with a particular expertise in how identities develop in human interactions, Wortham has conducted research spanning education, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and philosophy. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than 100 articles and chapters that cover a range of topics including linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, learning identity, and education in the new Latino diaspora.
Wortham's newest book is Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions.
At Shepherd the author tagged five of the best books that tell complex, hopeful stories about migration. One title on the list:
Border Porosities: Movements of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans by Rozita DimovaRead about the other entries on the list.
I love how this book documents the many ways in which borders are not nearly as solid as we typically imagine. We tend to think about how migrants move across borders, and they do, but the book traces how people, ideas, and things have moved back and forth between Greece and north Macedonia over the past century.
I was drawn in by the compelling stories of how less dramatic movements of this kind have transformed individuals and societies on both sides of the border.
--Marshal Zeringue
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