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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"DREAM Act"”.
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… the intersections between the rhetoric of the DREAM Act and the discourse of the migrant activists, specifically DREAMers, affected by the Acts language. Through a hermeneutic approach combining a rhetorical, genre, and critical discourse analysis, I examine how the DREAMers respond to …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a narrowly tailored bipartisan legislation that would provide qualifying undocumented youth a pathway to citizenship. Using a Latino/a Critical Race framework to address socio-political discourses surrounding the immigration debate, my …
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Writing the Next Chapter: A Critical Case Study of Undocumented Immigrant College Students’ Lived Experiences
… Perez, 2010). However, less than 13,000 are actually able to do so (Diaz-Strong, Gomez, Luna-Duarte, & Meiners, 2010). I posited that a major barrier between these students and the college degrees they desire is found in colleges’ interpretation of state (DREAM) policies. Using a Critical …
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College Graduation Rates of Hispanic Students: A Review of the Literature
<p>This literature review examines what factors cause Hispanic college students to drop out before completing their bachelor's degrees. Factors include the type of college attended, financial aid, attending college part-time, enrolling in college later in life, stopping-out, taking a gap year, …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
<p>Research question: <em>How has the practice of storytelling been used in the current U.S. conflicts over immigration?</em></p> <p>Telling an effective story is an essential part of a complex strategy to bring about social change, but storytelling as a part of collective action has not been …
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Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S.
… the development, maintenance, and power of undocuactivism, which is the mobilization of undocumented immigrants. Through in-depth interviews, physical and virtual fieldwork, archival online research, analysis of social media and protest art, as well as the use of history, critical theory, law, and …
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Undocumented Students’ Access to Higher Education in San Francisco, Bay Area
<p>This paper will explore the question: “in what ways does DACA status influence undocumented students’ ability to access higher education in San Francisco and Bay Area, California?” Even though DACA does not encompass any direct policies regarding access to education, there is a very strong …