The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students The Burden of Hyperdocumentation /

• Main Author: Chang, Aurora (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Sociology of Education.; Ethnicity in Education.; Self and Identity.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocum...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Undocumented to Hyperdocumented - A Jornada of Papers, Protection, and PhD Status
• 3. Privileged and Undocumented: Toward a Borderland Love Ethic
• 4. Undocumented Intelligence: Laying Low by Achieving High-An "Illegal Alien's" Co-Option of School and Citizenship
• 5. Figured Worlds and American Dreams: An Exploration of Agency and Identity Among Undocumented Students
• 6. Doing Good and Doing Damage: Educators' Impact on Undocumented Latinx Students' Lives
• 7. Working with Undocumented Students - What They Say We Need to Know
• 8. Academic Agency and the Burden of Perfectionism. .