Policies that harm or help?: How anti-immigrant policies deepen inequalities for youth and impact schools

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Abstract

This paper is a critical policy analysis of anti-immigration legislation related to the Supreme Court Case Plyler V. Doe. The authors analyze the current policy landscape to show how anti-immigrant legislation threatens educational equity for immigrant students and disrupts schools and learning. The analysis reveals the types of ways that these state-level bills propose and enact exclusionary and inclusionary language and practices that will limit or protect the educational rights of immigrant students. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

Authors

• Sophia Rodriguez, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Humanities

• Melissa Ortiz, New York University

• Sofía Antonia Gómez-Doyle, New York University