Reauthoring Undocumented: Counterstories From Undocumented Asian Undergraduate Students in California

• In Event: Explorations of Identity and Belonging

Abstract

Educational researchers cannot separate their ability to understand narratives in scholarship about racialized groups in society without thinking about power, which concretely shapes a story of a people that becomes the single (dominant) story. Using counter-storytelling as a theoretical tool and critical narrative inquiry methodology, this study presents findings as parallel stories that serve as a narrative representational structure of reauthoring participants’ counter-stories to juxtapose a single story versus nuanced stories. Through the perspectives of three undocumented Asian undergraduate students in California, findings offer empirical counternarratives to majoritarian narratives about contemporary undocumented immigration and methodological insights into how reauthoring can be employed as a narrative tool to engage in counter-storytelling in higher education research.

Author

• Rose Ann Rico Eborda Gutierrez, University of Nevada - Reno