ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the discursive practices associated with educacion contribute in multiple ways to Latinos' sense that they descended from an elsewhere. It considers how educacion is deterritorialized. To understand the relation of diasporic personhood and the pragmatics of educacion, some background information about the Latinos in Israel is necessary. Educacion as an understanding of interactional pragmatics is thus highly associated to place, and, as with several other kinds of discursive practices, is also highly associated with the speech of stereotyped characters in the places. However, Latino adults and kids alike tend to subscribe to the language ideology that Hebrew is simply a language bereft of educacion. Educacion is thus seen as producing an indexical chain pointing back up through the lineage of the family and ultimately to that shared homeland that noncitizen Latinos in Israel imagine unites them.
