Document Type
Special Section 1
Theme
OTHER PIPELINES: THE SCHOOL TO DEPORTATION PIPELINE
Abstract
The current heated debate over immigration reform in the United States frequently overlooks the plight of the children of undocumented immigrants. According to many estimates, there are nearly 12,000,000 unauthorized immigrants in the United States (Gonzales, 2009), and of these, 1.8 million are children (Gonzales, 2007). As dramatic as these numbers are, they account for only a fraction of those affected by the negative climate surrounding immigration and increased deportations. Indeed, half of the 10.2 million undocumented adult immigrants living in the US have children, and 73% of children born to undocumented immigrants are US citizens by birth. An estimated 5.5 million children and adolescents are growing up in families of mixed immigration status (Suarez-Orozco, Yoshikawa, Teranishi & Suarez-Orozco, 2011). Although these young people are American by experience and identity, they live in the shadows of a broken immigration system, which views them or members of their families as “illegal” in the eyes of the law and the public.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Timmons Flores, Maria
(2013)
"A DREAM Deported: What Undocumented American Youth Need their Schools to Understand,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol7/iss1/10
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Undocumented immigrants--Education (Higher)--United States; Undocumented immigrant children--Government policy--United States; Emigration and immigration--Government policy--United States; Education equalization--United States
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text