Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success.
Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, the volume opens with an exploration the aspirations of undocumented students and the fight for equity, followed by an examination of the impact and influence of parents and families on educational outcomes. Finally, it concludes with testimonios reflecting on the educational experiences of undocumented students in America. Each section presents readings in chronological order, demonstrating the progression around undocumented student success in the field over the past 20+ years, in respect to the intentionality about integrating undocumented student success throughout equity initiatives, breaking down institutional silos, fostering welcoming campus environments, and advocating for solutions that allow undocumented students to achieve economic mobility in both policy and practice.
This text is a must-have resource for graduate students and researchers in Educational Leadership and Policy, Multicultural Education, and Teacher Education. It will also be important reading for educational leaders, teachers, counselors, administrators, and organizations that share a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact undocumented students and their families.
Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success.
Section 1: Aspirations, Dreams Deferred, and the Fight for Equity
1. Dream Big: Exploring Empowering Processes of Dream Act Advocacy in a Focal
State, Journal of Latinos and Education
Brad Forenza and Carolina Mendonca
2. Politically Excluded, Undocu-Engaged: The Perceived Effect of Hostile
Immigration Policies on Undocumented Student Political Engagement
William E. Rosalez, Laura E. Enriquez, and Jennifer R. Najera
3. Exploring the Meaning and Paths of Advocacy for Undocumented Students
Access to Education
Emily R. Crawford and Noelle Witherspoon Arnold
4. To Me, Its Not about Immigration Status: Divergent Perceptions of Legal
Status among Undocumented College Students
Daniel Millan
Section 2: Parents and Families
5. Pathways to Achievement: Career and Educational Aspirations and
Expectations of Latina/o Immigrant Parents and Early Adolescents
Gabriela Chavira, Catherine R. Cooper, and Yolanda Vasquez-Salgado
6. Que Luchen por sus Intereses (To Fight for Your Interests): Unearthing
Critical Counter-Narratives of Spanish-Speaking Immigrant Parents
Kevin Roxas and Maria L. Gabriel
7. Bienvenido a Nuestra Escuela: A Thematic Exploration of Challenges and
Potential Solutions to Creating Culturally Responsive Models of Parent-School
Collaboration for Latino Immigrant Families
Eric Shyman and Samuel Rodriguez
Section 3: Testimonios, Identities, and Experiences
8. Fear of Deportation in High School: Implications for Breaking the Circle
of Silence Surrounding Migration Status
Julian Jefferies
9. The Educational Experiences of DACA Recipients, Journal of Latinos and
Education
Jena B. Casas
10. Testimonios de Immigrantes: Students Educating Future Teachers
M. Saray Gonzalez, Oscar Plata, Erika Garcia, et al.
11. Healing Images and Narratives: Undocumented Chicana/Latina Pedagogies of
Resistance
Lindsay Perez Huber
Enrique G. Murillo Jr. is Professor of Education at California State University, USA; Executive Director of the Latino Education and Advocacy Days (LEAD) Organization; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Latinos and Education; and founder of the National Latino Education Network (NLEN).
Sharon Velarde Pierce is Associate Professor of Public Administration at California State University, USA.
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