Defying Higher Education Borders with Migrant Students in Canada : Building Counterstories and Sanctuary Universities / Paloma E. Villegas & Tanya Aberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villegas, Paloma E., author.

Aberman, Tanya, author.

Series:

Challenging Migration Studies.

Challenging Migration Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Students, Foreign.

Immigrants--Education--Canada.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book explores migrant students' struggles for equitable access to higher education in Canada, focusing on a first-of-its-kind bridging program at York University. Through the concepts of "bordering" and "countering," Villegas and Aberman examine how students excluded due to immigration status resisted systemic barriers by forming supportive classroom communities and challenging dominant narratives. Providing essential insights for educators, policymakers, and advocates seeking to build more inclusive and just higher education systems, this book reveals how everyday acts of resistance can transform exclusion into opportunity and reimagine universities as sanctuaries.

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Journey to the Access Program Chapter 2: "Undocumented 101": Narrating Illegalization in the Affective Immigrant Classroom Chapter 3: "It Was Excitement Mixed with Relief Mixed with Hope, but There Was Still Some Trepidation": Dis/connections in HE and in the Classroom Chapter 4: "Much has not changed from the past": Creating Counterstories to Canadian Nation-Building and Immigration Policy Conclusion References Index About the Authors

ISBN:

1-9787-6013-2

979-82-16-25361-7

979-88-8189-569-3

9781978760134

OCLC:

1564034087