Undocum(other)ing as Political Act of Resistance

• In Event: Labor of Love and Resistance: M(other)work in the Lives of Chicana Graduate Students

Abstract

This paper contributes to the notions of Chicana/Latina M(other)work scholarship to discuss undocumented m(other)ing. The study highlights how an undocumented mother engages in m(other)work in their personal, familial, and academic life while in graduate school. This study emphasizes the significant role that m(other)work and othermothering takes in undocumented doctoral students' educational trajectories by caring for family and students while navigating graduate school with undocumented status.

Author

• Miriam G. Delgado, University of California - Riverside