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“There Is No Such Thing As Single Issue Struggles”: Undocuqueer Students In Higher Education, Briceida Hernandez-Toledo, Anita Tijerina-Revilla
“There Is No Such Thing As Single Issue Struggles”: Undocuqueer Students In Higher Education, Briceida Hernandez-Toledo, Anita Tijerina-Revilla
McNair Poster Presentations
• Immigration remains a controversial topic dominating domestic and international conversations about borders, migrants, and human rights.
• The undocuqueer movement and identity evolved from the immigrant rights movement of the early 2000s
• Undocuqueer immigrants are those who identify as undocumented and queer
• According to the Perez (2014), approximately 80,000 undocumented teens turn 18 every year, with 65,000 graduating from high school (cited by the Department of Education 2015, p. 3).
• only 54% of undocumented teens earn a high school degree, compared to 82% of their peers who earn it. • Extant research on this topic is …