Unwanted Americans?: Undocumented Youth with "American Dreams"

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Vargas, Mireille
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Curriculum in Latin American Studies
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  • This qualitative study documents the experiences of three undocumented Latino youth each at a different level—the elementary, middle, and high school levels. These case studies and oral histories from unique perspectives of undocumented students from traditional two-parent homes in a small town (located near a major transportation hub and approximately forty-five miles away from two major cities) in the Piedmont in North Carolina serve to further the current research on undocumented youth and address a research gap. Through observation and ethnographic structured and semi-structured interviews about (a) their school and home environments; (b) work, school, and family history; (c) migration history; and (d) educational, social, and occupational aspirations in relation to being an undocumented immigrant and how this influences their aspirations and actions in work, in school, at home, and in their social life, I relate their stories through a combination of historiography and narrative inquiry methods to explore how their legal status affects them during that particular stage in their life. Furthermore, I interviewed their parents and observed their families to grasp a deeper understanding of the students’ lives.
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  • Cravey, Altha
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  • Bachelor of Arts
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  • Honors
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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