The struggles of identity, education, and agency in the lives of undocumented students the burden of hyperdocumentation /

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 undocum...

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Main Author: Chang, Aurora (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 135 pages)
Subjects:
Noncitizens -- Education (Higher)
Immigrant students.
Illegal immigration.
Noncitizens.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Undocumented to Hyperdocumented
  • A Jornada of Papers, Protection, and PhD Status
  • 3. Privileged and Undocumented: Toward a Borderland Love Ethic
  • 4. Undocumented Intelligence: Laying Low by Achieving High-An "Illegal Alien's" Co-Option of School and Citizenship
  • 5. Figured Worlds and American Dreams: An Exploration of Agency and Identity Among Undocumented Students
  • 6. Doing Good and Doing Damage: Educators' Impact on Undocumented Latinx Students' Lives
  • 7. Working with Undocumented Students
  • What They Say We Need to Know
  • 8. Academic Agency and the Burden of Perfectionism.

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