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46.037 - Toward Justice: Role of Policy in Shaping Contexts, Praxis, and Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students
Sat, April 18, 8:15 to 10:15am, Swissotel, Floor: Event Centre First Level, Zurich GSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Scholarship pertaining to understanding the experiences of undocumented students in higher education has often focused on individuals and their encounters with discrimination rather than on how systemic discriminatory policies shape larger institutional, political, and research contexts. This symposium will provide a multifaceted examination the role of policy in shaping contexts, praxis and higher education access for undocumented students with particular attention to ways in which policy serves as an instrument for delivering discriminatory practice, shaping legal consciousness, enacting institutional agents’ professional values and personal beliefs in their praxis, and conceptualizing methodological approaches to research.
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Discriminatory Policies and Their Effects on the Postsecondary Educational Pathways of Undocumented Students: A Critical Discrimination Perspective - Blanca E. Elizabeth Vega, Teachers College, Columbia University; H. Kenny Nienhusser, University of Hartford
Analyzing the Role of Professional Values and Personal Beliefs in the Implementation of State and Institutional Policies That Affect Undocumented Students - Michelle M. Espino, University of Maryland - College Park; H. Kenny Nienhusser, University of Hartford
Methodological Considerations in Investigating Undocumented Students' Postsecondary Access and Persistence - Robert T. Teranishi, University of California - Los Angeles; Cynthia Maribel Alcantar, University of California - Los Angeles
Legal Status as Social Identity: Toward a Conceptual Model of Legal Consciousness - Susana Maria Munoz, Colorado State University - Fort Collins