Undocumented Student Resource Guide

• Dreamers Unbound: Immigrant Youth Mobilizing
• Educating Citizens or Defying Federal Authority? A Comparative Study of In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
• Exploring the Meaning and Paths of Advocacy for Undocumented Students' Access to Education
• Leaving the 'perfect DREAMer' behind? Narratives and mobilization in immigration reform
• 'I'll be risking myself just to get an education': how local-level immigration enforcement impacts undocumented students' pathways to college
• Sanctuary Campuses: The University's Role in Protecting Undocumented Students From Changing Immigration Policies
• Speech or Silence: Undocumented Students' Decisions to Disclose or Disguise Their Citizenship Status in School
• Undocumented Students' Narratives of Liminal Citizenship: High Aspirations, Exclusion, and "In-Between" Identities
• US immigration fight heightens legal limbo for young 'Dreamer' scientists
• “It Is Who We Are. We Are Undocumented”: The Narrative of Two Undocumented Latino Male Students Attending a Community College

• We Are Not Dreamers by Leisy J. Abrego (Editor); Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales (Editor)

  The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers--who are themselves currently or formerly undocumented--call for the elimination of the Dreamer narrative, showing how it establishes high expectations for who deserves citizenship and marginalizes large numbers of undocumented youth.
• Organizing While Undocumented by Kevin Escudero

  An inspiring look inside immigrant youth's political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how--despite this risk--many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement's epicenters--San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City--to explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of color, and women, connect their efforts to broader social justice struggles today.
• Dreams Derailed by William A. Schwab

  During the 2016 presidential campaign, millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a wall between the United States and Mexico. Not quite two years into the Trump presidency, immigration endures as a hotly contested topic in United States politics. In Dreams Derailed sociologist William A. Schwab shares the stories of immigration reform advocates and follows up on stories told in his 2013 book Right to DREAM, which argued in favor of the DREAM Act that would have provided conditional residency for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children, a version of which was later enacted by executive order and referred to as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Schwab also takes a close look at the factors that carried Donald Trump to the White House, demonstrates how economic upheaval and the issue of immigration influenced the 2016 presidential election, analyzes current immigration laws, and suggests next steps for reform.
• Eclipse of Dreams by Marco Saavedra; Claudia Muñoz; Mariela Nuñez-Janes

  After the DREAM Act failed, many young undocumented activists understood that pinning their hopes on a piece of legislation had been a bad idea. They also saw that the DREAM Act would have fragmented communities, families, and social movements, because it designated only a subset of immigrants as worthy of assimilation (and its rewards), while others, who often lived under the same roof, would be further criminalized. Eclipse of Dreams creatively tells the stories of a new generation of young people, awakened "Dreamers" who see the injustice built into the American dream. Using a collective writing process, as well as testimonials, photography, poetry, and art, this book is an invitation to reconsider the myths we tell ourselves, in order to find another way forward for migrant justice and human dignity, one that might allow us all to recover our global humanity. From direct action to the infiltration of immigrant detention centers, these youth are leading a movement for human liberation.