Challenging Borders: Centering Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education
Tentative Program
Thursday, October 22nd
(Center for Ideas and Society, CBS 114)
5:15 p.m. Welcoming remarks
5:30 p.m. Keynote speaker – Dr. Laura Emiko Soltis, Freedom University, Atlanta, GA
6:30 p.m. Reception
Friday, October 23rd
(CHASS Interdisciplinary Building, Room 1113)
8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks
9:30 a.m. Undocumented Youth Political Identities
Susana Munoz, “Legal Status as a Social Identity: The Construction of Legal Status for Undocumented Latina/o Youth who Self-Identify as ‘Undocumented and Unafraid’”
Edwin Elias, “Don’t Label Me a DREAMER: Undocumented students identity after DACA and CA Dream Act”
Tom Wong, “The Political Incorporation of Undocumented Youth”
10:30 a.m. Book display
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Undocumented youth: Work, organizing, and education in the DACA era
Leisy Abrego, “`I can reevaluate my goals’: DACA for Students and Workers”
Jennifer Nájera, “Undocumented Students and Community Work: Building Pathways to the Institution of the University”
Genevieve Negron Gonzales, “Who Has a Right to DREAM? Undocumented Community College Students Navigate Dual Identities as Undocumented Students & “Illegal” Low-Wage Workers”
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Navigating Diverging Educational Pipelines
Marisol Clark Ibáñez, “Lessons from the (Leaking) Educational Pipeline for Undocumented Students”
Lindsay Perez Huber, “Como una jaula de oro (It’s like a golden cage): The impact of DACA and the California DREAM Act on Undocumented Chicanas/Latinas”
William Pérez, “Higher Education Access Among DACAmented, Undocumented, and Deported Mexican Young Adults.”
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Student testimonios
3:30 p.m. Open forum: Challenging the next borders
4:30 p.m. Reception