Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams
Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants' Legality and Educational Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Menjívar (0000-0002-7061-509X, School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 620 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 177-193 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716208323020 |
| OpenAlex | W2158742346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article focuses on the effects of an ambivalent legal status on Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' experiences with the U.S. educational system, focusing on how liminal legality shapes access to educational opportunities and immigrants' perceptions of these opportunities. Drawing on the segmented assimilation framework and on thirty-four in-depth interviews conducted with Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona, the author argues that an ambiguous legal status molds views and perceptions of educational prospects and, as such, is central in determining immigrants' place in the educational system. While waiting for their statuses to become regular, they dream of higher education—dreams that are for the most part unattainable. Their legality, while not the only determining factor, does exacerbate and facilitate other conditioning circumstances, such as financial difficulties, family separations, and so on, that also impinge on their educational prospects. This case highlights the importance of immigration policies in shaping assimilation in critical ways
Ambivalence · Immigration · Liminality · Perception · Political science · Principle of legality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
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Does acquisition of formal citizenship have an impact on immigrant adolescents’ perception of racial inequality and discrimination
Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered
The Limits of Gaining Rights while Remaining Marginalized
“I Need this Chance to … Help My Family”
Moving Ahead in Madrid
Conceptualizing Semi-Legality in Migration Research
How legal status contributes to differential integration opportunities
Do relational and structural characteristics of negative school environments independently predict immigrant adolescents’ academic achievement
Exploring the Meaning and Paths of Advocacy for Undocumented Students’ Access to Education
State-of-the-art review on policy and research of returning Mexican and stranded Central American youth
Proximity and policy
Tensions that Make a Difference
Teachers making sense of undocumented status and their responsibilities to undocumented students
Citizen Advantage, Undocumented Disadvantage, or Both? The Comparative Educational Outcomes of Second and 1.5‐Generation Latino Young Adults 1
Citizen Advantage, Undocumented Disadvantage, or Both? The Comparative Educational Outcomes of Second and 1.5‐Generation Latino Young Adults 1
Economic Incorporation, Civil Inclusion, and Social Ties
Foiled Aspirations
Mexican-Origin Children's Educational Expectations and Academic Performance
Educational Services for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States
Legal Violence
Fu
Immigrant Inclusion in the Safety Net
The bright lights
To Reveal or Conceal
How states can reduce the dropout rate for undocumented immigrant youth
The Contradictions of Liminal Legality
Transition into Liminal Legality
Legality, Racialization, and Immigrants' Experience of Ethnoracial Harassment in Russia
Shifting Roles in Families of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) Recipients and Implications for the Transition to Adulthood
Transformative Effects of Immigration Law
Institutional Constraints Limiting Social Services for Immigrants
Black Mexicans, Conjunctural Ethnicity, and Operating Identities
Dreams Deferred
Immigrant Criminalization in Law and the Media
Unequal Welcome and Unequal Life Chances
(Il)legality and psychosocial well-being
Educational and Occupational Ambitions among the Spanish 'Second Generation
Foregrounding Family
"Racializing "Illegality
Ethnicity everywhere and nowhere
Dreaming in Spain
Contextual Influences on Children’s Mental Health and School Performance
A Social Capital Framework for Understanding the Socialization of Racial Minority Children and Youths
Fragmented Ties
Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective
Preparing Latinos/as for a Flat World
Mi Voz, Mi Vida
I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”
Fractured Families and Communities
Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Students
Academic Performance of Young Children in Immigrant Families
All under One Roof
Educational Aspirations of Minority Youth
The academic trajectories of immigrant youths
Family Structure, Residential Mobility, and School Dropout
The educational enrollment of immigrant youth
The New Second Generation
(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
Double Disadvantage or Signs of Resilience? The Elementary School Contexts of Children From Mexican Immigrant Families
American Behavioral Scientist
The Intersection of Work and Gender
Living in two worlds? Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and emerging transnationalism
Latino immigrants perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States
Parent-Child Differences in Educational Expectations and the Academic Achievement of Immigrant and Native Students
Social Capital and the Reproduction of Inequality
Educational Progress of Children of Immigrants
Effects of Immigrant Parents' Participation in Society on Their Children's School Performance
Liminal Legality
Latino immigrants' perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States
Post-secondary school participation of immigrant and native youth
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |