Undocumented and Unwanted: Attending College Against the Odds (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)

Type

Book

Authors

Lisa D. Garcia

ISBN 10

1593327013

ISBN 13

9781593327019

Tags

Emigration & Immigration, Hispanic American Studies, Higher & Continuing Education, Education, Law, Social Sciences

Description

Undocumented immigrant postsecondary students face myriad challenges while pursuing a college education. Garcia focuses on the experiences of nine students attending a public comprehensive postsecondary institution in California to assess how different types of social capital help students pursue a college education. She demonstrates how students were wholly or partly reliant on various types of social capital accessed before and during matriculation. Three of the major findings are: institutional agents were instrumental in developing students' social capital, family- and peer-based social capital was important to students' matriculation, and perceptions about immigration status affected students' matriculation and social capital development. - from Amzon

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