Public Scholarship and Immigrant Students and Families: Leveraging Community and Research Partnerships

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Focusing on the education of undocumented students and students from mixed-status families, this panel of educators, immigrant advocates, political leaders, journalists, lawyers and researchers examines the potential of public scholarship to advance equitable, research-informed immigration and education policies. Undocumented students and their families, and increasingly the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants, face enormous risks in the U.S. Moreover, our nation’s legacy of failed immigration policies creates barriers for undocumented students’ pathways toward higher education and authorized immigration status. This policy failure is compounded by challenges researchers face to inform public debate and policy deliberations about more constructive approaches through the use of empirical evidence. Public scholarship, developed and disseminated in the context of research-public sector partnerships, is greatly needed to understand and address the complex conditions of undocumented students.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Ruth Maria López, Brown University

• Jaime Del Razo, Brown University

• Jaein Lee, Harvard University

Participants

• Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, University of California - Los Angeles

• Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University

• Laura M Bohórquez García, United We Dream

• Apolonio Morales, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

• Sandra Lucia Osorio, Illinois State University

• Samuel Orozco, Radio Billingüe