Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Undocumented and Unwanted: Attending College Against the Odds

Undocumented and Unwanted: Attending College Against the Odds

Garcia, Lisa D.

Hardcover

Series: New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society

General EducationGeneral LawImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1593327013
ISBN13: 9781593327019
Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Undocumented immigrant postsecondary students face myriad challenges while pursuing a college education. Garcia focuses on the experiences of nine students attending a public comprehensive postsecondary institution in California to assess how different types of social capital help students pursue a college education. She demonstrates how students were wholly or partly reliant on various types of social capital accessed before and during matriculation. Three of the major findings are: institutional agents were instrumental in developing students' social capital, family- and peer-based social capital was important to students' matriculation, and perceptions about immigration status affected students' matriculation and social capital development.

Also in

General Education

View All