Overview
- 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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Book Title: The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students
Book Subtitle: The Burden of Hyperdocumentation
Authors: Aurora Chang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64614-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64613-8Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87836-2Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64614-5Published: 17 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 135
Topics: Sociology of Education, Ethnicity in Education, Self and Identity, Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights