Open AccessMaking and becoming the Undocumented and the Illegal: Discourses of immigration and American higher education policy
Author(s) -
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.727
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.25.2286
Subject(s) - immigration , state (computer science) , conversation , immigration policy , political science , journalism , presidential system , sociology , public policy , discourse analysis , public administration , interrogation , higher education , policy analysis , subject (documents) , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , communication , algorithm , computer science , library science
This paper discursively analyzes the public conversation around immigration as it intra-sects with state and federal policy, particularly in relation to higher education. I take in-state resident tuition policy as a departure point for an interpretive effort to explain how “undocumented” and “illegal” subject positions are produced through intra-secting policy texts, popular journalism, and presidential campaigns. I illustrate how the ethics produced through this policy regime act pedagogically, mediating understandings of students becoming reified into “undocumented” and/or “illegal” identities. I pay special attention to the discursive productions made available from policy texts, both state-based (e.g., CA Dream Act) and federal (e.g., DACA), highlighting the use of discourse analysis in the interrogation of social policy.