The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they «come out» from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as «undocumented and unafraid».
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Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists
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Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists
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Adult EducationTable of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword (Stella M. Flores)
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Undocumented Journey– Stories of Migration, Family, and Schooling: Participant Profiles
- Chapter Three: College Access and Experiences in Higher Education for Undocumented Students … “Why did they recruit us, if they aren’t going to support us?”
- Chapter Four: Unpacking the “Staying In” and “Coming Out” Process … “Yeah, it’s kind of funny because every time I tell someone I don’t have papers, they’re like, ‘No way, are you serious?’”
- Chapter Five: Social Activism and Defining “Undocumented and Unafraid” … “After years of feeling powerless, feeling ashamed, and feeling afraid and to see people who have that courage and conviction to do something”
- Chapter Six: Cultivating Undocumented and Unafraid as a Form of Resistance to Legal Violence … “We fight, sometimes, for single issues, but as human beings we aren’t single issues”
- Chapter Seven: From Undocumented to Becoming DACAmented … “I licked my card and it tastes like plastic, it doesn’t taste like freedom”
- Chapter Eight: Conclusion
- Bibliography
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