Seeking the American Dream Along the United States – Mexico Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14835129 |
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| Authors | Maria Cristina Morales, Juan Mendoza (0000-0002-6956-5339) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 31-34 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0888-4552.40.3.31 |
| OpenAlex | W2809747193 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Largely missing from public policy discussions on education and border crossing at the U.S. Mexico border are the experiences of transnational students. In this article, we illustrate some of the struggles of transnational students crossing from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México to El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. in pursue of an American education. These students are in K-12 and higher education and their daily commute (or almost daily) entail a start time before sunrise to cross the international port of entry to attend American schools. The majority of these students are U.S. citizens that reside on the Mexican side of the border. In this paper, we provide a glimpse into these students struggles for a U.S. education and discuss some political implications of this phenomena
Border crossing · Dream · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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