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Direct linkRedmond, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undocumented children immigrants in the United States experience significant hurdles pursuing higher education due to their illegal status, resulting in lower rates of college attendance for children arriving before the age of 14 than U.S. born children. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program aims, in part, to remove these…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Academic Persistence, Student Motivation
Carol S. Chung – ProQuest LLC, 2022
When the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order was initiated, the career and education outlook for DACA recipients expanded as the legal employment authorization allowed for aspirations and pursuits of higher degrees and consequently career fields commensurate with their education (Abrego, 2018). DACA is approaching its 10th year…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Graduate Students, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Peer reviewedCasas, Jena B.; Benuto, Lorraine T.; Newlands, Rory – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) policy has given unauthorized immigrants access to many opportunities, specifically education. While DACA has improved the lives of many undocumented immigrants, this group continues to face obstacles while pursuing their educational aspirations. Using semi-structured interviews, the current study…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, Persistence
Alicia Billini – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Immigration has been a longstanding conversation, or debate, in American politics and society throughout history. Whether, or how much, to embrace immigrant populations into U.S. society has been a source of polarization over time, specifically as related to the handling or treatment of undocumented immigrants. A particularly acute dimension of…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Public Policy, Political Attitudes
Download full textNeutuch, Eric – Journal of College Admission, 2018
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which began in 2012 through an Obama executive order, provides individuals who entered the country illegally or overstayed visas as minors with work permits and protection from deportation. Of the approximately 11 million undocumented people in the United States, 690,000 hold DACA permits. They are…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, Student Motivation, Public Policy
Carmelo Osvaldo Miranda – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study aimed to understand the lived experience of eleven undocumented students that attended a community college in an agricultural part of Northern California without a designated undocumented student academic center. Specifically, these students were interviewed to understand the factors that impacted their education and their sources of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Student Experience, Court Litigation
