Stuck between a D.R.E.A.M. and Reality? Investigating the Online Undocumented Youth Movement Strategies

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

Abstract

This paper considers how undocumented youth operate within a hegemonic immigration discourse and investigates the strategies they utilize to further the political activism. Looking at a website dedicated to the passage of the federal DREAM Act revealed how these unauthorized youth student movement attempts to collapse the binary that frames this 1.5 generation as either as victims or victors in the migration process and provides a deeper understanding of the socio-political dynamics they grapple with.

Author

• Claudia Anguiano, Univ of New Mexico