Fighting for a Dream Deferred: Examining the Resistance by Undocumented Students

• In Event: Complex Rights: Latinas/os, Citizenship, and Law

Abstract

This paper explores the strategic resistance being created by the students themselves to help establish the case for student adjustment legislation, such as the DREAM (Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act. The primary faces of the DREAM Act are young Latinos/as and that young people who face the possibility of deportation have grown increasingly vocal in their support for this legislation and in their more general right to citizenship is an important communication phenomenon.

Author

• Claudia Anguiano, Univ of New Mexico