In this paper we share some of the results of a research project conducted last year in four schools and
a cultural center of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. In this research we analyzed and interpreted the
school successful careers of a group of young women immigrants from South Asian countries (mainly from
Pakistan and India) who lived and were schooled –totally or partially– in Catalonia. Therefore, the relation
between education, immigration and gender was considered. In this research context, the taken cases will
allow us to show the complexity of reconstructing a visual narrative that tells the paths of school life among
this group of young women and at the same time the emerging tensions in the research process.
This text links to our participation 2nd Meeting “RESEARCH WITH YOUNG PEOPLE: What do we know
of young people as producers of visual vulture”, held this year in Pamplona, with our own research; it
addresses the issue of young people as producers of visual culture by taking into account a need arose
during the project development by using the visual language of the girls participating as a significant fact
when telling (themselves) and rebuild their stories of school life.