Undocumented and unwanted : attending college against the odds / Lisa D. Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia, Lisa DeAnn.

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens--Education (Higher)--United States.

Noncitizens.

Universities and colleges--Residence requirements--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Student aid--United States.

Student aid.

College costs--United States.

College costs.

Illegal immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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." -- Publisher description.

Contents:

An introduction: undocmented immigrant college students

Conceptual framework

Research design and method

Going to college

Conclusion: making sense of the data.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593327309

1593327307

OCLC:

857718377