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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nWriting Rights to Right Wrongs: A Critical Analysis of Young Children Composing Nationalist Narratives as Part of the Larger Body Politic  \nCassie J. Brownell  \nOntario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto  \nMany researchers have considered recent and intergenerational immigrant children’s perspectives on immigration policies.  \nFewer have investigated nonimmigrant children’s views despite children’s sociopolitical identities forming long before they can vote. Drawing from data generated in spring 2017, the author illustrates how young children at an urban, midwestern school argued against the Republican administration’s (anti-)immigration policies. Framed as an ethnographic case study, the author focuses on how third graders enacted justice-oriented identities as they wrote to congressional representatives about contemporary immigration policies. By attuning to how children embedded multiple institutional and political contextsin their written rationale, the author explicates the tensions and possibilities for nonimmigrant children in writing policies and possibilities for tomorrow. Ultimately, the author argues adults must intentionally sustain children’s civic participation in ways beyond the niceties that plague early years classrooms.  \nKeywords: immigration, early childhood education, writing, critical literacies, civics  \nMany educational scholars offered strategies for managing race-related trauma resulting from the 2016 presidential election, whereas others detailed teachers’ responses immediately following the election (Garcia & Dutro, 2018; Sondelet al., 2018 ) . Fewer studies considered children’s experiences. Those that did typically focused on older elementary children and middle schoolers for shorter periods of time (Caffrey & Journell, 2019; Payne & Journell, 2019; Yoder, 2020) . Likely, this is because most adults rarely view young children as “young people” interested in activist work, arguing children are too naive for such endeavors (Yoon, 2020) .  \nPolitical scientists (Haug, 2017; Sapiro, 2004; Stoker & Bass, 2011) and educational theorists (Glennie et al., 2009; R. Hess & Torney, 1967/2006) have noted uncertainty about how children’s sociopolitical development unfolds persists. More studies interrogating how regime shifts and governmental changes inform children’s long-term civic participation are needed. Likewise, critical consideration must be given to how children index (un)just discourses “represented in local and national media and the language arts curriculum” in their daily lives (Enciso, 2011, p. 22 ) .  \nStudies investigating young people’s engagement in all civic discourse are crucial. The turbulence of the current political era in the United States necessitates nuanced consideration about how young children employ rhetoric (Boset al., 2021; Oxley et al., 2020) . Scholars have documented that countless children desire to transform their world for the better, and many are skilled rhetoricians (Ghiso, 2015) . Less research illustrates instances wherein children perpetuate  \noppressive hyperbole, despite the general understanding that children bring “broader political-historical knowledge” to school (Pacheco, 2009, p. 18 ) .  \nOne does not have to look far to identify instances ofchildren (and teachers) employing hateful rhetoric. Recent news stories depict students using racial slurs on social media, nooses found in classrooms, and persistent assaults on queer and transgender students in school. The day after the 2016 election, a prominent example of hate speech reverberated across national media. It occurred down the road from the focal school. 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