To Unlock the Consequences of Trumps' executive order on My Family: A Duoethnography

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Start Date

January 2019

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January 2019

Abstract

Duoethnography is a rather new method where two participants scrutinize the cultural context of their biographical experiences to gain an in-depth understanding of their current perspectives concerning their personal and professional issues. Notwithstanding the legal challenges and protests sparked by the Trumps’ executive order, international students from seven Muslim-majority countries were affected by the order. This duoethnography centers voices of my wife and I who are affected by the executive order temporarily barring the citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations and halting approximately all refugee admissions. We discuss how this executive order negatively impacted me as an international student at an American university (USF). My wife and I also uncover how political decisions can tremendously impact international students and their families, surface racism amongst the citizens of the host country (US) and disillusion the international society from building a better future. We collected data from our informal chats, poems that we composed, and Facebook pictures. All through the data collection process, we destabilized each other’s opinions to distill into the crux of the matter. We attempt to portray a rather comprehensive image of the hardships that we underwent. This image might not reflect the experiences of other international students.

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Duoethnography, International Students, Trumps' Executive order

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To Unlock the Consequences of Trumps' executive order on My Family: A Duoethnography

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Duoethnography is a rather new method where two participants scrutinize the cultural context of their biographical experiences to gain an in-depth understanding of their current perspectives concerning their personal and professional issues. Notwithstanding the legal challenges and protests sparked by the Trumps’ executive order, international students from seven Muslim-majority countries were affected by the order. This duoethnography centers voices of my wife and I who are affected by the executive order temporarily barring the citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations and halting approximately all refugee admissions. We discuss how this executive order negatively impacted me as an international student at an American university (USF). My wife and I also uncover how political decisions can tremendously impact international students and their families, surface racism amongst the citizens of the host country (US) and disillusion the international society from building a better future. We collected data from our informal chats, poems that we composed, and Facebook pictures. All through the data collection process, we destabilized each other’s opinions to distill into the crux of the matter. We attempt to portray a rather comprehensive image of the hardships that we underwent. This image might not reflect the experiences of other international students.