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McCorkle, Will; Bailey, Beatrice – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
South Carolina is arguably the most restrictive state in the nation as it pertains to access to higher education for immigrant students, particularly undocumented and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students. As we show through personal interviews, this has had a detrimental effect on the lives of many immigrant students throughout…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Civil Rights, Immigration, Public Policy
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Avery, Patricia G.; Levy, Sara A.; Simmons, Annette M. M.; Scarlett, Michael H. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2012
The term democracy has an overwhelmingly positive connotation for most people (Diamond & Plattner, 2008), yet it is a contested, fluid, and evolving concept that represents many different things to different people. This article presents our analysis of conceptions of democracy among groups of adolescents (n = 2,848, ages 13-19) in the Czech…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Democracy, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries