The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students
The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students

Author: Aurora Chang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 3319646141

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This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author’s journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students. In interlacing both personal experiences with findings from her empirical qualitative research, Chang explores practical and theoretical pedagogical, curricular, and policy-related discussions around issues that impact undocumented immigrants while provide compelling rich narrative vignettes. Collectively, these findings support the argument that undocumented students can cultivate an empowering self-identity by performing the role of infallible cultural citizen.

We Are Not Dreamers
We Are Not Dreamers

Author: Leisy J. Abrego

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-08-14

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1478012382

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The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward. Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gabrielle Cabrera, Gabriela Garcia Cruz, Lucía León, Katy Joseline Maldonado Dominguez, Grecia Mondragón, Gabriela Monico, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Maria Liliana Ramirez, Joel Sati, Audrey Silvestre, Carolina Valdivia

Contested Issues in Troubled Times
Contested Issues in Troubled Times

Author: Peter M. Magolda

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1000977072

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Contested Issues in Troubled Times provides student affairs educators with frameworks to constructively think about and navigate the contentious climate they are increasingly encountering on campus.The 54 contributors address the book’s overarching question: How do we create an equitable climate conducive to learning in a dynamic environment fraught with complexity and a socio-political context characterized by escalating intolerance, incivility, and overt discrimination?Rather than attempting to offer readers definitive solutions, this book illustrates the possibilities and promise of acknowledging multiple approaches to addressing contentious issues, articulating a persuasive argument anchored in professional judgment, listening attentively to others for points of connection as well as divergence, and drawing upon new ways of thinking to foster safe and inclusive campuses.Among the issues this volume addresses are such topics as sexual violence; historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; transgender and undocumented students; the professional skills, knowledge and/or dispositions needed to thrive and facilitate systemic change in contemporary higher education organizations; the implications of maintaining personal and professional identities via social media; and self-care.In this companion volume to Contested Issues in Student Affairs (whose issues remain as relevant today as they were upon publication in 2011), a new set of contributors explore new questions which foreground issues of equity, safety, and civility – themes which dominate today’s higher education headlines and campus conversations.The book concludes with calls to action, encouraging student affairs educators to exhibit the moral courage needed to critically examine routine practices that (un)knowingly perpetuate inequity and enact the foundational values and principles upon which the student affairs profession was founded.

In the Shadows
In the Shadows

Author: Karla Sanchez

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781124282626

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Abstract: The purpose of this project is to write a narrative that presents the issues encountered by undocumented immigrants pursuing a college education. The project will discuss the difficulty of acculturation and its impact on mental health among immigrants as the transition into American society. The legal issues encountered by the undocumented population will be discussed as well as the effects of deportation on the individual and family. This project will emphasize undocumented students and highlight the various financial and emotional barriers encountered in the pursuit of a higher education. The writer will discuss her transition to the United States and how her experiences shaped her cultural identity. The writer will discuss the process of realizing she was an undocumented immigrant and the feelings of anger, embarrassment, and resentment she encountered thereafter. Furthermore, she will describe how being undocumented became an integral part of her self-identity, all the while being something she kept hidden from the world.

Educational Leadership of Immigrants
Educational Leadership of Immigrants

Author: Emily R. Crawford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0429591020

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This book prepares current and future educational leaders to adapt to the changing terrain of U.S. demographics, education, and immigration policy. Educational Leadership of Immigrants highlights the educational practices and discourses around immigration that intersect with policies and laws, in order to support K-12 students’ educational access and families’ participation in schooling. Drawing primarily on research from the fields of educational leadership and educational policy, this book employs a case study approach to address immigration in public schools and communities; school leaders’ responses to ethical dilemmas; the impact of immigration policy on undocumented students; and the varying cultural, sociopolitical, legal and economic contexts affecting students’ educational circumstances. Special features include: • case narratives drawn from real-life experiences to support the educational needs of immigrant students; • teaching activities and reflective discussion questions pertaining to each case study to crystallize leaders’ knowledge and facilitate their comfort levels in practice; • discussions of current challenges in education facing immigrant students, their families, educators, and school leaders, especially with changing immigration law.

Persistent Inequality
Persistent Inequality

Author: Maria Pabon Lopez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1135229686

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The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory ideas, Persistent Inequality answers burning questions about how educational policy has to rise to meet the unique challenges of undocumented students’ lives as well as those which face nearly all Latinos in the U.S. educational system. How solid is the Supreme Court precedent, Plyler v. Doe, that allows undocumented children the opportunity to attend public school K-12 free of charge? What would happen if the Supreme Court overruled it? What is the DREAM Act and how would this proposed federal law affect the lives of undocumented students? How have immigration raids affected public school children and school administrators? To shed some light on these vital questions, the authors provide a critical analysis of the various legal and policy aspects of the U.S. educational system, asserting that both the legal and educational systems in this country need to address the living and working conditions of undocumented Latino students and remove the obstacles to educational achievement which these students struggle with daily.

Pathways and Experiences of First-Generation Graduate Students
Pathways and Experiences of First-Generation Graduate Students

Author: John S. Levin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3031168089

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This book focuses on first-generation graduate students in the US and the graduate or post-baccalaureate programs that house and educate these students. The several voices in this book, including first-generation graduate students, address the phenomena of graduate students’ experiences and related university practices, with the practices connected to traditional academic and Western values and to academic and neoliberal institutional logics. First-generation graduate students’ narratives, or testimonies, serve as the foundation of the analysis of students’ pathways to graduate school and their experiences within graduate school. The conditions for first-generation graduate students in their programs require remedies that will facilitate student well-being, peer community attachment, and persistence, and will educate and train students for achievement in graduate school and for employment after graduate school.

Illegalized
Illegalized

Author: Rafael A. Martínez

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0816548633

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Illegalized situates undocumented youth movements' trajectories in the twenty-first century. It invites readers to explore how undocumented youth activists changed the way immigrant rights are discussed in the United States today.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration

Author: Giuseppe Sciortino

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1839105461

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Adeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s achievements and current challenges, it explores key concepts used in current research, methods employed, and the spheres and contexts in which migrants participate.