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Title: Expanding the Portrait of the Undocumented College Student: The Identity and College Experience of High-Achieving, Undocumented Latino/a Students at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2017

ISBN: 9781369781120

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Abstract: Research on undocumented students has explored the challenges of this population in accessing and persisting in higher education. It has also analyzed the factors that undocumented students draw upon to be academically resilient. This research has been exclusively conducted at public 4-year universities and community colleges, many of which exist in states that have in-state tuition laws for undocumented students. Highly selective private liberal arts colleges and national research universities have also offered admission and, in most cases, full tuition packages to undocumented students. However, research has not yet empirically examined the college experience of undocumented students attending these institutions. To address this gap in research, this study relies on the qualitative application of two identity-development models and theories—the Multidimensional Model for Racial Identity (Sellers et al., 1998) and the concept of stigmatized identities and management of stigma (Goffman, 1963)—to explain the ways in which undocumented Latino students conceptualize their identity and navigate their immigration status, academics, and their social experience in the context of highly selective, private national universities and liberal arts colleges.

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Authors: Montiel, Gloria Itzel

Institution: The Claremont Graduate University

Department: Educational Studies

Advisor: Perez, William

Degree: Ph.D.

Publisher Location: California, US

Pages: 231

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender, Race and Ethnicity

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