Aurora Chang

The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students (eBook, PDF)

The Burden of Hyperdocumentation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 135
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319646145
• Artikelnr.: 52941665

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.