LatinaLista — Another school year is coming to an end and for the thousands of undocumented students who are graduating from high school, there’s nothing to look forward to: If they live in a state where racist legislators have enacted laws barring these students from getting in-state tuition. If they live in a state where [...]
Report: Undocumented youth turn to civic activism to fight for their right to stay in the U.S.
LatinaLista — UC Irvine anthropologist Leo Chavez and Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service, have co-authored a study showing how undocumented immigrant youth, faced with dwindling options in life due to their citizenship status, resort to political and civic activism. The study, “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity [...]
Young Immigrant Activists Who Can’t Vote Influence Those Who Can
By Devin Browne Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — Last month, Time Magazine featured a 27-year-old undocumented immigrant activist from Phoenix in its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The activist, Dulce Matuz, an advocate for undocumented migrant youth looking for a pathway to citizenship, was featured alongside Marco Rubio, the Middleton sisters, and [...]
The Saga of Immigrant Youth — the gap between feeling American and becoming American on paper
By Gaby Pacheco LatinaLista Next month, the country’s educational community celebrates the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler vs. Doe. In Plyer vs. Doe, the high court ruled in June 1982 that it was against the law to prohibit primary and secondary education to an undocumented student. Although the decision [...]
Guest Voz: Undocumented youth explains why she’s willing to risk deportation
LatinaLista — The undocumented youth of the Immigration Reform movement are known as the DREAM Act students — young people who were brought to this country by their parents as infants, toddlers, preteens or teens and who embraced being an “American” to the point that until they graduated from high school or wanted to drive [...]
DREAM Act students journey to DC for inaugural class of DREAM University
LatinaLista — Washington DC is home to some of the country’s finest universities — Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Howard — and it is also home to a new one christened DREAM University. DREAM University (DU) is for those students otherwise known as DREAM Act students — students either denied seeking a college degree or unable [...]
