Category: annotated bibliography

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This theoretical article approaches migration experiences by looking for and at spaces of belonging, rather than harm, wherein connection, sustenance, and recognition offer possibility to immigrant youth in migration. It details how such spaces can be constructed at the relational, community, and national level, with focus on how physical, legal, political, and cultural geographies and…

Impact of First-Generation Status, Living in an LLC, and Campus Club Involvement on Sense of Belonging in the First Semester (Jones & Morrow, 2022)

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This study examined the impact of first-generation status, living in a living-learning community (LLC), and campus club involvement on the sense of belonging among first-year college students in their first semester. The results showed that campus club involvement was a significant predictor of sense of belonging on all four subscales. Students who were more involved…

The Study of Belonging in Early Childhood Education: Complexities and Possibilities (Erwin, Valentine, & Toumazou, 2022)

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This study addresses the reality that in spite of the increase in studies on belonging and early childhood since the early 2000s, few involve young children’s voices or contributions. The paper overviews the literature on the study of belonging with young children, focusing on early education settings. It highlights studies that have found that Othering and teacher…

Thinking About Belonging in Youth Studies (Harris, Cuervo, & Wyn, 2021)

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Drawing on a range of research project by the authors, across the field of Youth Studies, this book explores the ‘turn’ to belonging within that field and considers how ideas about belonging intersect with concepts of transitions, participation, citizenship, and mobilities within a transnational, global world. The association of cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial aspirations with creative…

Effect of a Place-Based Learning Community on Belonging, Persistence, and Equity Gaps for First-Year STEM Students (Johnson et al., 2020)

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The study examined the impact of a place-based learning community on first-year STEM students’ sense of belonging, academic performance, and persistence. Using a quasi-experimental design, the researchers found that participants in the place-based learning community had a stronger sense of belonging, improved academic performance in gateway courses, and increased first-year persistence compared to a matched…

Youth, Place, and Theories of Belonging (Habib, S. & Ward, M., 2020)

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This edited collection offers a broad set of perspectives on the forces that shape the self-stated “anxious politics” of belonging in the contemporary globalized world. The chapters, which come from authors around the world, explore how these forces are felt in particularly ways by young people. The book asserts that while in youth studies, belonging…

Finding Place: Cognitive and Psychosocial Factors Impacting Latina/o Students’ Sense of Belonging (Carales & Nora, 2020)

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Guided by several theoretical approaches to student success, this study tested cognitive and non-cognitive variables including a set of background, financial, and psychosocial factors. Regression analysis revealed five foci that predicted Latinx student’s sense of belonging at a Hispanic Serving Institution. These included (1) finances/financial aid, (2) psychosocial experiences, (3) racial attitudes and beliefs, (4)…

A Place-based Learning Community: Klamath Connection at Humboldt State University (Johnson et al., 2017)

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The article describes the design, implementation, and initial assessment of a place-based learning community called Klamath Connection at a US state university. The program aimed to improve the academic performance and retention of first-time STEM majors, many of whom come from distant urban areas and underrepresented backgrounds. The Klamath Connection integrated four high-impact practices –…

Searching for Belonging: An Analytical Framework (Antonsich, 2010)

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This study engages in critical reading of the meaning of the term ‘belonging’ across academic disciplines, offering a two-part analytical framework. It argues that belonging signifies both a personal, place-based feeling of being ‘at home,’ at the individual level, and a discursive, political concept of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion at the societal level. The paper asserts that…

Belonging: A Culture of Place (hooks, 2009)

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This reflection on belonging is situated in hooks’ complex positionalities as a cultural critic and a racialized woman from Kentucky and, more broadly, Appalachia. It explores her own personal journeys from country to city to elsewhere, and her circling back to where she’d begun, in her childhood home place. The book explores the politics of…

Belonging at Work (McClure & Brown, 2008)

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This phenomenological research study is a business text overviewing the aspects of the work experience that give it meaning, exploring the feeling of belonging as experienced at work. Based on participant narratives from workers across the working life span, the paper outlines a structure of belonging at work composed of six themes, including discovery of…

Community: The Structure of Belonging (Block, 2008)

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This book is an organizational development text that emphasizes belonging as a key factor and strategy in resisting fragmentation and isolation, and in building healthy and successful community capacity. Its core premise is that cultural beliefs in individualism and in the idea that technology and science can solve our complex societal problems are inadequate and…

Sense of Belonging in College Freshmen at the Classroom and Campus Levels (Freeman, Anderman, & Jensen, 2007)

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This study focuses on the benefits of belonging for college-aged populations, framed generally in the traditional undergraduate sense. Associations between students’ sense of belonging to a class environment and their academic motivation in that class, their perceptions of their instructor, and their campus-level belonging are correlated via survey. Academic self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and task value…

Belonging and the Politics of Belonging (Yuval-Davis, 2006)

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This study identifies and distinguishes three analytical levels on which belonging can be constructed, outlining psychological and sociological elements of belonging as well on literature on modernity and alienation. Its first level of belonging focuses on social location, the second on individuals’ identification with and emotional attachment to collectives and groups, and its third on…

Identity and Culture: Narratives of Difference and Belonging (Weedon, 2004)

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