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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 14
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Undocumented to Hyperdocumented: A "Jornada" of Protection, Papers, and PhD Status
Chang, Aurora
Harvard Educational Review, v81 n3 p508-521 Fall 2011
In this personal essay, Aurora Chang describes her experience of "hyperdocumentation"--the effort to accrue awards, accolades, and eventually academic degrees to compensate for her undocumented status. In spite of her visible successes and naturalization, Chang still confronts the rage and intolerance of American "commonsense" beliefs about immigration. Her narrative questions the pursuit of documentation as a means to legitimacy and acceptance in American society. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Undocumented Immigrants, Personal Narratives, Essays, Social Experience, Educational Experience, Phenomenology, Beliefs, Social Attitudes, Recognition (Psychology), Achievement Need, Performance Factors, Recognition (Achievement), Political Attitudes, Foreign Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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