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 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. 

List of 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.  

About the author

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

Summary

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 

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Product details

• Authors: Aurora Chang
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319646138
• ISBN: 978-3-31-964613-8
• No. of pages: 135
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 15 mm x 217 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 135 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; B, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, Human Rights, Politics & government, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Self, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Educational strategies & policy, Social Justice, Social research & statistics, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Educational sociology, Ethnicity in Education, Education—Curricula, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculums (Courses of study), Curriculum Studies, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Self and Identity, Identity (Psychology)