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

The Burden of Hyperdocumentation
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-87836-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 135 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

Questions the pursuit of documentation as a means to legitimacy and acceptance in American society
Includes elements of personal narrative, empirical research and methodological approaches
Argues that undocumented students’ quest to achieve in academia provides an agentic space to cultivate an empowering self-identity while forcing them to involuntarily perform the role of infallible non-citizen citizen

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chang, Aurora

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Aurora Chang is Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at Loyola University, USA.