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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Undocumented persons."”.
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An exploration of statelessness in Namibia: The significance of legal citizenship
… electoral law makes conditional provision for undocumented persons to vote but the same law prevents them from being appointed as elected office-bearers. The study recommends that further research be done to establish cases of statelessness within the undocumented population, focusing on lived …
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Historical Case Study: San Diego and Tijuana Border Region Relationship with the San Diego Police Department, 1957-1994
Large numbers of undocumented persons cross through the hills and canyons along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border region, on a nightly basis. As these helpless victims cross, border bandits and other criminals stalk these people and prey on them like predatory animals. The San Diego Police Department …
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The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas
… problems of health care access experienced by undocumented Latinas: women from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Those who are undocumented may encounter significantly reduced access to health care, for the risk of discovery causes them to be more furtive in their …
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The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
This dissertation examines representations of undocumented aliens and explores the issue of illegality in contemporary American immigration fiction. It takes as a fundamental premise that in immigration, status matters. The importance of immigration status in the "real world" is evident not only in …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… the manner in which DREAMers respond to how undocumented persons are positioned as potential citizens and students, or how policy shapes activism and in turn how activism shapes policy. This dissertation informs the way compositionists teach writing to undocumented, multilingual writers, …
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Conceptualizing the undocumented college student's legal status.
Undocumented students in pursuit of a college education face a unique intersection of conflicting identities: one that potentially gives them a higher societal status by joining the social category of "college student," and one that is associated with a social stigma that comes from the label of …