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Abrego, L. J., & Gonzales, R.G. (2010). Blocked Paths, Uncertain Futures: The Postsecondary
Education and Labor Market Prospects of Undocumented Latino Youth. Journal of Education
for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 1532-7671, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 144 – 157
Abrego, Leisy Janet. “I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns of
Latino Undocumented Youth, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 212-231(20), 2006.
Abrego, Liesy. Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill
540 on Undocumented Students in California, 33 Law & Soc. Inquiry 709, 2008.
Alfred, Janice. Denial of the American Dream: The Plight of Undocumented High School Students
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Bacon, David. Communities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 2006. Print.
Bacon, David. Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
Boston: Beacon, 2008. Print.
Buff, Rachel. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. New York: New York UP, 2008. Print.
Chavez, Leo R. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. Fort Worth:
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Chin, Aimee. Does reducing college costs improve educational outcomes for undocumented
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Chin, Jean Lau. Diversity in Mind and in Action. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009. Print.
Drachman, Edward. Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Students. Peace Review, Volume
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Flanagan, C., & Levine, P. Civic Engagement and the Transition to Adulthood
The Future of Children, Volume 20, Number 1, pp. 159-179, 2010.
Flores, Stella M.; Horn, Catherine L. College Persistence among Undocumented Students at a Selective
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Frum, L. Jennifer. “Post Secondary Educational Access for Undocumented Students:Opportunities
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Gonzales, R. (2006). Born in the Shadows: How the Sons and Daughters of Unauthorized Migrants
Make Ends Meet. Paper presented at the Conference of Ford Fellows, October 20, in
Washington, DC.
Komaie, G., & Rumbaut R.G. (2010). Immigration and Adult Transitions
The Future of Children, Volume 20, Number 1, pp. 43-66.
Lopez, J. (2006). We asked for workers and they sent us people: College-ready undocumented students
and their teacher allies in North Carolina. Paper presented at the Annual Association for the
Study of Higher Education Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Lopez, Janet K. Undocumented Students and the Policies of Wasted Potential. El Paso [Tex.: LFB
Scholarly Pub., 2010. Print.
Ló pez, María Pabó n., and Gerardo R. Ló pez. Persistent Inequality: Contemporary Realities in the
Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Madera, Gabriela. Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak out. Los
Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, 2008. Print.
Martínez, Isabel (2009). What’s Age Gotta Do With It?: Understanding the Age-Identities and SchoolGoing Practices of Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City. The High School Journal Volume 92, Number 4, pp. 34-48.
Noll, James Wm. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Educational Issues. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.
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Oers, B. Van. The Transformation of Learning: Advances in Cultural-historical Activity Theory.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. Print.
Perez, William. We Are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream. Sterling,
Va.: Stylus, 2009. Print.
Rincon, Alejandra. Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: Si Se Puede! El Paso: LFB
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Suárez-Orozco, C., & Suárez-Orozco, M. (2009). Educating Latino Immigrant Students in the TwentyFirst Century: Principles for the Obama Administration . Harvard Educational Review,
Volume 79, Number 2, pp. 327-340, Summer 2009.
Valencia, Richard R. Chicano Students and the Courts the Mexican American Legal Struggle for
Educational Equality. New York: New York UP, 2008. Print.
Online Articles and Resources
AB 540 Access to College for ALL!:
http://www.maldef.org/ab540/ab540.cfm
AB 540-New Law Increases Access to Community College for Non-Resident Students:
http://www.ijournal.us/issue_02/ij_issue02_YoungAndNoldon_01.htm
AB 540 Resource Guide (Green Dot Public Schools):
http://www.greendot.org/files/AB540%20Resource%20Guide.pdf
AB 540 UC Tuition Exemption Questions and Answers:
http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2002/ab540qa.htm
AB 540/ Undocumented Student Resource Guide (CFC Edition):
http://www.avidregion4.org/resources/documents/fin_aid/UndocumentedStudent_Studen
t_Guide-AB_540_.pdf
Academic Resilience Among Undocumented Latino Students:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/perez-espinoza-ramos-coronado-cortes2009.pdf
Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth:
http://psychologymatters.org/pubs/journals/releases/dev-46-3-602.pdf
Access Between and Beyond Borders:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/gildersleeve-2010jca.24225113.pdf
Access to Community College for Undocumented Immigrants: A Guide for State Policymakers:
http://inpathways.net/AccessCommunityColleges.pdf
Access to Higher Education for Undocumented Students:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Perez_2010JCA.24210357.pdf
Access to Institutional Resources as a Measure of Social Exclusion: Relations With Family Process
and Cognitive Development in the Context of Immigration:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/yoshikawa-godfrey-rivera-2008.pdf
Addressing the Mental Health Problems of Border and Immigrant Youth
http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/BorderlandersSpecialReport_Final_0.pdf
Aging Out: A Non-Celebration
http://www.dreamactivist.org/agingnoncelebration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_mediu
m=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dreamactivist+%28DreamActivist.Org%29
America’s Children:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/herrington-2010jca.24233428.pdf
Analyzing Institutional Responses to Increased Awareness and Policy Changes Regarding
Undocumented Students in Higher Education:
http://www.departments.oxy.edu/uepi/uep/studentwork/09comps/Bonilla%20Nine%20
Digits%20Away%20from%20a%20Dream.pdf
ANALYSIS: Student's Detainment Raises Question of Undocumented Youth
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/6/12/balderas-immigration-students-harvard/
Are undocumented residents a major drain on public and private health care resources?:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/chcf-2007.pdf
California’s Out-of-School Immigrant Youth:
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_407LHRB.pdf
California Tuition Turmoil:
http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=1105
California Dream Network:
http://cadreamnetwork.org/ab540.html
Can Undocumented Student Earn the Right to be Recognized as American Citizens?:
http://www.cgu.edu/pages/7045.asp
The Civic Education and Engagement of Latina/o Immigrant Youth: Challenging Boundaries and
Creating Safe Spaces:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Hinda%20Seif%20Challenging%20Boundaries
%20and%20Creating%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf
Civic Engagement Patterns of Undocumented Mexican Students
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Perez_et_al_2010.147122337.
pdf
Civic Lessons: Public Schools and the Civic Development of Undocumented Students and Parents:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v3/n2/3/3Rogers.pdf
The College & Financial Aid Guide for: AB540 Undocumented Immigrant Students:
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/34/e6
/8b.pdf
College Choice Process of Latino Undocumented Students: Implications for Recruitment and
Retention:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/perezp-2010jca.24230302.pdf
Coming Out Undocumented: An Evolution
http://immigration.change.org/blog/view/coming_out_undocumented_an_evolution
The Costs of Getting Ahead: Mexican Family System Changes After Immigration:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/bacallao-smokowski-2007.pdf
Crime, Corrections, and California - What Does Immigration Have to Do with It?:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/butcher-piehl-2008.pdf
Defined by Limitations:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/arriola-murphy-2010jca.24231139.pdf
A Demographic and Sociological Perspective on Plyler’s Children, 1980-2005:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/NJLSP/v3/n2/2/2Chapa.pdf
Documenting Implementation Realities: Undocumented Immigrant Students in California and North
Carolina:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/oseguera-flores-burciaga2010-jca.24232814.pdf
The Dream of Education:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-dream28apr28...
EdFund eLearning for Financial Aid Professionals:
http://www.edfund.org/wps/portal/eLearningForSchools
Educating Undocumented Students: The Legacy of Plyler v. Doe:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v3/n2/1/1Kohli.pdf
Expectations and Motivations of Hondurans Migrating to the United States:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/sladkova-2007.pdf
Extending Our Investments: Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students:
http://www.diversityweb.org/DiversityDemocracy/vol13no1/perez.cfm
Fostering an Inclusive Environment:
http://diverseeducation.com/article/11206/1.php
Hegemony, Ideology & Oppositional Consciousness: Undocumented Youth and the PersonalPolitical Struggle for Educational Justice:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z83w4t7
Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students: Recommendations for Counseling
Professionals:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Perez_2010JCA.24210357.pdf
'Hollow Victory' for Undocumented Students
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/21/immigrants
Illegal, But Not Alien:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yolanda-reid-chassiakos/immigration-illegal-butn_b_577221.html
Illegal immigrants less than 1 percent of California college enrollment:
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/01/2648006/illegal-immigrants-less-than-1.html
Immigrant kids may get a boost: Bills would give undocumented students a shot at citizenship
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/1/036515-4351-009.html
Immigrant Students: Gaining Visibility:
http://www.faccc.org/pubs/facccts/features/Fall06FACCCTS_feature.pdf
In-State Tuition for the Undocumented: Education Effects on Mexican Young Adults:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/kaushal-2008.pdf
Inician semana de acción por los estudiantes inmigrantes: Buscan pasar ley que rebaje colegiaturas
sin papeles:
http://www.laopinion.com/archivo.html...
The Invisibles:
http://www.decolonizing.com/pdfs/invisibles.pdf
Is Higher Education Out of Reach for Qualified Undocumented Students?:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/anderson-blum-2010jca.24234651.pdf
Keeping Promises to Immigrant Youth
http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1617&context=lawrev
La Universidad de California Pone en Marcha la Ley AB 540
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/april12-02/ley.htm
Left Out But Not Shut Down: Political Activism and the Undocumented Student Movement:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v3/n2/4/4Gonzales.pdf
Legal Issues for School Districts Related to the Education of Undocumented
Children:
http://www.nsba.org/SecondaryMenu/COSA/Search/AllCOSAdocuments/UndocumentedChildren.aspx
Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on
Undocumented Students in California:
www.ideasla.org/research/Abrego_Effects_of_AB540.pdf
Living at the Crossroads of Cultural Worlds: The Experience of Normative Conflicts by Second
Generation Immigrant Youth:
http://www.psych.yorku.ca/lalonde/documents/Giguere_Lalonde_Lou_2010_SPPC.pdf
Long walk to immigration reform for undocumented youth
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/usa/features/article_1552043.php/Long-walkto-immigration-reform-for-undocumented-youth
Mexican Americans Born by Midwife Denied Passports
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,32326197001_1914854,00.html
The Minnesota Immigrant College Access Movement: History, Policy and Recommendations to
Admission Counselors:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/godinez-espejel-2010jca.24235205.pdf
More Than Just Access:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/herrington-2010jca.24233428.pdf
Navigating the Waves of Social and Political Capriciousness: Inspiring Perspectives From DREAMEligible Immigrant Students:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/morales-herrera-murry-2009.pdf
The New Latino South and the Challenge to Public Education:
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/3e/55
/d4.pdf
Nine Digits Away from a DREAM:
http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/uep/studentwork/09comps/Bonilla%20Nine%20Digits
%20Away%20from%20a%20Dream.pdf
Nine Magic Numbers » Stories of Undocumented Youth in New York City:
http://ninemagicnumbers.com
Not Just a Latino Issue: Undocumented Students in Higher Education:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/chan-2010-jca.24231405.pdf
Oakland to Offer Identification Cards:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-idcard5-2009jun05,0,1333636.story
Opportunity of a Lifetime a Student’s Perspective:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/gomez-2010jca.24232122.pdf
Out before the Game Begins: Hispanic Leaders Talk about What's Needed to Bring More Hispanic
Youngsters into Science, Technology and Math Professions:
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/3d/e9
/27.pdf
Plan for College - Study Skills - High School Action Plans:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/
A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States:
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=107
Protecting Undocumented Youth:
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/08/protecting_undocumented_youth.html
Quest for Education:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/gilbert-2010jca.24235758.pdf
Rally backs effort to help immigrant students
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-residency13apr13,1,4877321.story
Report finds undocumented students face college roadblocks:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/undocumented.students/index.html
The Right Thing To Do:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/rodriguez-2010jca.2502343.pdf
Rising Immigrant Students through Education:
http://rise-ucb.blogspot.com/
Securing Equal Opportunity for Academic Achievement:
http://maldef.org/education/public_policy/
¡Sí se puede! Undocumented Immigrants’ Struggle for Education and Their Right to Stay:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/gomez-2010jca.24232122.pdf
States debate in-state tuition for undocumented students
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=31tuition.h22&keywords=Dream%20Act
Still Dreaming: Legislation and Legal Decisions Affecting Undocumented AB 540 Students:
http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press/briefs/documents/pb23.pdf
Struggling for Opportunity: Undocumented AB 540 Students in the Latina/o Education Pipeline:
http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press/reports/documents/RR13.pdf
Student immigration status at issue in recent incidents:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=05immig.h22&keywords=Immigrant
Students Informing Now (S.I.N.) Challenge the Racial State in California without Shame..."SIN
Verguenza!":
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/42/c2
/ea.pdf
The Subjective Experience of Trauma and Subsequent PTSD in a Sample of Undocumented
Immigrants:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/rasmussen-rosenfeld-reeves-keller-2007.pdf
Supreme Court case to prevent undocumented children in-state tuition:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/117114
Talking to Undocumented Students about Sensitive Subjects:
http://williamperezphd.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/gin-2010-jac.24220213.pdf
Texas Community Colleges and Characteristics of a Growing Undocumented Student Population:
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/jauregui-slate-brown-2008.pdf
Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow
http://www.williamperezphd.com/articles/passel-cohn-2008.pdf
U.S. Citizens Caught Up in Immigration Sweeps:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-citizen92009apr09,0,2307847,full.story
UCLA, UC research highlights experiences of youth in poverty:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/new-research-highlights-experiences-157651.aspx
An Undesireable Inheritence:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804446.html?sid=ST2009120602845
An Undocumented Princetonian:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03alien-t.html
Undocumented students: Part IV
http://21stcenturyscholar.org/2010/05/05/undocumented-students-part-iv/
Undocumented Students Struggle with High Cost of Education: A Look at AB 540
http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/reportcard/features/5-6/ab540/index.html
Undocumented grads to get tuition breaks from California Institutions
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=09tuition.h21&keywords=Immigrant
Undocumented Immigrant Youth: Guide for Advocates and Service Providers:
http://www.njjn.org/media/resources/public/resource_451.pdf
A Vulnerable Minority:
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_407LHRB.pdf
Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams: The Lost Potential of Undocumented Students:
www.ideasla.org/research/Migration_Policy_Institute_Wasted_Talent_and_Broken_Dreams_
Gonzales.pdf
Why Reverse Transfer?:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/17/transfer
Young Lives on Hold:
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/young-lives-on-hold-collegeboard.pdf
Videos
AB-540 ... A Good Start:
http://immigration.change.org/blog/view/ab-540_a_good_start
Alienated: Undocumented Immigrant Youth
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/alienated_undocumented_immigrant_youth/
Papers the movie:
http://www.papersthemovie.com/