Dreams Delayed
Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Community College Students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3657766 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Veronica Terriquez |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1302-1323 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2014.968534 |
| OpenAlex | W2159872509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 37 |
Community colleges in the United States (US) remain relatively accessible to students from immigrant families. However, undocumented immigrant students encounter difficulties in staying continuously enrolled in community colleges because they contend with multiple disadvantages. These students often ‘stop out’, or withdraw with intentions to return. This mixed-methods study explores the non-continuous enrolment of students from immigrant families. Drawing on survey data from a randomly selected sample of community college students in California, logistic regression results indicate that although the children of immigrants exhibit an ‘immigrant advantage’ with respect to staying continuously enrolled in community college, those who remain undocumented stop out at disproportionately high rates. Through a comparative analysis of 80 semi-structured interviews with undocumented immigrants and US citizens, I outline the multidimensional ways in which a precarious legal status interferes with students' postsecondary schooling. Specifically, I suggest that undocumented students' legal status often leads them to stop out due to corresponding financial hardship, sub-standard employment options, the precarious legal status of other undocumented family members who rely on their earnings, and excessive stress. This study offers evidence that the condition of ‘illegality’ functions as a ‘master status’ that has an overpowering effect on students' college pathways
Business · Community college · Demographic economics · Earnings · Immigration · Legal status · Logistic regression · Medical education · Political science · Sociology · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
“Racism is stronger than both of our papers”
A Better Future
Slow legal violence and the undocumented 1.5 Generation
On the Intersectional Amplification of Barriers to College Internships
“They Didn’t Know What to Tell Me”
Learning, Compliance, and Psychological Burdens When Undocumented Immigrants Claim In-State Tuition Policy
The Impact of Housing Experience on the Well-Being of 1.5-Generation Immigrants
Do ties protect? Examining economic insecurity and mental health in mixed‐status families among undocumented undergraduates
“Denying America”
“Barriers Trying to Hold Us Back”
Deepening Our Understanding of Basic Needs Through the Lens of Undocumented College Students
Constructing Compliance, Institutionalizing Creative Solutions
Master status or intersectional identity? Undocumented students’ sense of belonging on a college campus
Stratified Entry into Illegality
A Double Punishment
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Coming of Age on the Margins
Physical and mental health impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic among college students who are undocumented or have undocumented parents
Listening in the margins
Illegality
Temporalising barriers
Dreamers’, (un)deserving immigrants and generational interdependence
The War Still Continues”
The War Still Continues,” Part II
Disrupted Education
Evaluating the Effect of Legal Vulnerabilities and Social Support on the Mental Health of Undocumented College Students
Patchwork and Paying It Forward
Legal Vulnerability and Campus Environment
What Helps Students Get Help
Life after College
Supporting Undocumented Students During Uncertain Times
Toward a Nuanced and Contextualized Understanding of Undocumented College Students
To Me, It’s Not about Immigration Status”
Educating the “illegal”
Soy de aquí, soy de allá
The contradiction of silence and disclosure
Fractured paths
The Academic Performance of Undocumented Students in Higher Education in the United States
The Story of Daca as Told by Friends of the Court
Suppressed Potential
Mediating Illegality
Documenting Their Decisions
Where Do I Go from Here? Examining the Transition of Undocumented Students Graduating from College
Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America
Far from angels
Daca and the Differentiated Landscape for College Access
Experiential Dual Frame of Reference
Mechanism mapping
Gendering Illegality
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó
The higher educational trajectories of undocumented youth in New York City
The educational incorporation of Daca recipients in multilayered immigration policy contexts
Felons are also our family
A 'master status' or the 'final straw'? Assessing the role of immigration status in Latino undocumented youths' pathways out of school
The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the Dacamented
Can Universities Counteract Immigrant Illegality? Examining the Impact of University-Based Institutional Support on Undocumented College Students
Linking Contexts, Intersectionality, and Generations
Divergent Destinies
Awareness of Arizona's immigration law SB1070 predicts classroom behavioural problems among Latino youths during early adolescence
Empty Promises
Deconstructing Immigrant Illegality
Servants of Globalization
The DREAMers
"Because We Feel the Pressure and We Also Feel the Support"
Sin Papeles y Rompiendo Barreras
State Dream Acts
Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences Among Undocumented Mexicans and Other Latinos
Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth
‘I have too much baggage’
Financial Challenges in Emerging Adulthood and Students’ Decisions to Stop Out of College
A tale of networks and policies
Family Responsibilities Among Latina College Students From Immigrant Families
I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”
Immigrant Workers, Precarious Work, and the US Labor Movement
Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research
The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration
Parental income, assets, borrowing constraints and children's post-secondary education
When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States
Family obligation and the transition to young adulthood
Male and Female Pathways Through Four-Year Colleges
Learning to Be Illegal
No Place to Belong
Becoming Dacamented
The Gendered and Racialized Pathways of Latina and Latino Youth
The Female Educational Advantage Among Adolescent Children of Immigrants
Following Their Every Move
What We Know About Unauthorized Migration
Trapped in the Working Class? Prospects for the Intergenerational (Im)Mobility of Latino Youth
The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England
Ethnoracial patterns of schooling and work among adolescents
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |