scholarly journals Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students: Lessons from a California Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Laura E. Enriquez ◽  
Karina Chavarria ◽  
Victoria E. Rodriguez ◽  
Cecilia Ayón ◽  
Basia D. Ellis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Undocumented College Students

scholarly journals Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tapia-Fuselier ◽  
Veronica A. Jones ◽  
Clifford P. Harbour
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
State Resident ◽  
Undocumented College Students

Undocumented college students in the United States encounter a number of structural barriers to postsecondary education success, including disparate in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies across the country. Texas, the first state to establish ISRT benefits for undocumented college students, has been a site of tension respective to this issue over the last 20 years. In fact, there have been eight legislative attempts to repeal the state’s affirmative ISRT policy. In order to investigate this ongoing ISRT debate in Texas, we used critical discourse analysis methods to analyze the implicit and explicit messages communicated in the policy and surrounding policy discourse. Our conceptual framework, grounded in three constructs of critical whiteness studies including ontological expansiveness, color evasiveness, and individualization, allowed us to uncover whiteness as a pernicious undergirding force within this policy discourse.

scholarly journals Beyond undocumented: Differences in the mental health of Latinx undocumented college students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefina Flores Morales ◽  
Yuliana Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
Undocumented College Students

AbstractUndocumented college students face several threats to their well-being and mental health. Different social locations, including whether students have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, students’ gender, and family factors may shape students’ ability to be well. How these factors work together to shape mental health outcomes among undocumented Latinx college students is not well understood. This study examines several factors (demographic, familial, immigration, and socioeconomic factors) associated with anxiety scores of undocumented Latinx college students who participated in the UndocuScholars Project national online survey in 2014. We observe three notable findings: (1) DACA recipients report heightened levels of anxiety, (2) women with DACA status report higher levels of anxiety compared to non-DACAmented undocumented college students and men with DACA, and (3) students whose families motivate them report lower levels of anxiety. Latinx undocumented college students are not a monolith; demographic, family, and socioeconomic factors matter.

A Latent Profile Analysis of Undocumented College Students’ Protection-Oriented Family Communication and Strengths-Based Psychological Coping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A Kam ◽  
Monica Cornejo ◽  
Katerina M Marcoulides
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Psychological Coping ◽  
Latent Profile ◽  
Undocumented College Students

Abstract Drawing from resilience theory, this study explored subgroups of undocumented college students (UCS) based on their patterns of protection-oriented family communication and strengths-based psychological coping. Using survey data from 237 UCS, latent profile analyses revealed three subgroups. Safe optimistic copers reported occasional documentation-seeking and know-your-rights communication, but higher means in prevention and right path communication, as well as optimistic coping. Comprehensive copers scored moderately high in all types of protection-oriented communication and psychological coping. Strengths-based psychological copers infrequently engaged in protection-oriented communication, yet they scored moderately to moderately high in positive psychological coping. Compared to the other two profiles, safe optimistic copers reported the worst wellbeing (highest mean anxiety, depressive symptoms, and sleep disturbances; lowest mean perceived health and wellbeing). Comprehensive copers fared worse in anxiety, depressive symptoms, and sleep disturbances compared to strengths-based psychological copers; however, comprehensive copers reported greater wellbeing, perceived health, and academic motivation.

scholarly journals Face me I face you

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ◽  
Justin J Hendricks ◽  
Terrence S McTier Jr. ◽  
Enrique Bojórquez Gaxiola
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Undocumented College Students

This iterative and a-signifying sound experimentation project started from simple wonderings that emerged from undocumented college students’ interview data. As the researchers began to reflect on the data provided by these students, conversations around noise and gossip began to emerge. Over time, the conversations about noise and gossip transmogrified into various soundscapes and audio recordings that extended also beyond noise and gossip. "Let’s work more with the sound and try to extend effects and create affects. Maybe produce another extension of that video in such a way that we would still be working with the thing, whatever the thing was" stated Mirka and Justin. Justin would go on to say, "It's less and less representational and signifying. Our sound encounters produce something different than what we originally intended them to be. Or they work, or function as whatever."

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