Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: Si Se Puede! (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)

Type

Book

Authors

Alejandra Rincon

ISBN 10

1593322925

ISBN 13

9781593322922

Tags

Emigration & Immigration, Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Racism, Higher & Continuing Education, Education, Social Sciences

Description

Rincon reviews the struggle by undocumented immigrant students to gain access to college by paying in-state tuition rates. These efforts, which have been successful in ten states, can be characterized as a human and civil rights struggle based on the fundamental premise that no group should be subjected to discrimination. Undocumented students seek equality under the law while affirming their humanity and thus their rights as human beings. Undocumented immigrants seek to overturn government and media images that portray them as aliens and "illegals," devoid of all rights simply because they are working and living in a country other than the one in which they were born. - from Amzon

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