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Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education

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The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they «come out» from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as «undocumented and unafraid».weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-2558-4 / 978-1433125584 / 9781433125584

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2015

Seiten: 142

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Susana M. Muñoz

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