Fostering existential well-being: mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California

Ellis, Basia D.

doi:10.1080/17450101.2023.2213405

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“…At the societal/institutional level, some immigrant participants reported regaining OS when accessing authorized documentation. By making use of navigational and social capital to go through the cumbersome DACA paperwork, immigrant youth can access better educational and job opportunities (Ellis, 2019). Accessing the liminal authorized documentation status is one way for people to make community and regain trust in a system based on colonial legal frameworks that often criminalize them (Achiume, 2019).…”

Section: Institutional/societal Level Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When the political context is antiimmigrant, immigrant people experience more fear and distress (Menjívar & Abrego, 2012;Vaquera et al, 2017). Prior evidence suggests that accessing DACA positively shapes people's wellbeing (Ellis, 2019). Perhaps this impact is partly shaped by people regaining OS in educational institutions through DACA status and making connections with other DACAmented people, rather than the status itself.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality.

Ramirez¹,

Martinez²,

Hernandez³

et al. 2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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In the context of coloniality, immigrant people regain ontological security (OS) to rehumanize themselves. OS is a sense of trust immigrant people feel in the reliability of people and institutions (Vaquera et al., 2017). We consensus-coded interviews of 33 immigrant people in the Western United States. The analysis team was composed of bilingual coders from immigrant backgrounds. Immigrant people regain OS by using strategies at different ecological levels of analysis (Prilleltensky, 2008). They regain trust in themselves, their communities, and institutions, using resistant, social, linguistic, and navigational capital to actualize their hopes and dreams (Yosso, 2005). In a decolonial turn, we center relationality in our analysis, relying on the analysis team’s shared experiences of minoritization and thriving as members of the Latin American immigrant community. Our goal is to amplify immigrant people’s lived experiences of regaining OS along with our own, unveiling the research team’s entanglements with the immigrant community, and aiming to coconstruct research from our hearts.

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Section: Institutional/societal Level Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mitzy's Personal Reactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality.

Ramirez¹,

Martinez²,

Hernandez³

et al. 2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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From lost to leading: How undocumented student resource centers are transforming student lives

Offidani-Bertrand,

Ellis

2024

Culture & Psychology

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In response to a growing awareness of undocumented students’ experiences and the challenges they face, many colleges in the United States are developing supports and resources for undocumented students, and a growing number are establishing Undocumented Student Resource Centers (USRCs)—i.e., supportive offices on campus dedicated to the success of these students (Cisneros & Valdivia, 2020). However, no studies to date have explored the psychosocial impacts of USRCs on the lives of undocumented students. In this paper, we examine the psychosocial impact of USRCs on undocumented students through qualitative interviews with USRC coordinators and students who accessed USRC services and programs in California. Our study utilizes the cycles of deportability framework to theorize undocumented students’ experiences as dynamic psychosocial processes, and to explore what happens to these cycles when students encounter the supportive culture of the USRC and begin to experience its practical and psychological supports. Our results demonstrate how Undocumented Student Resource Centers can transform the lives and trajectories of undocumented students not only by providing resources that help them overcome status-related barriers, but by equipping them with the creative agency, psychological strength, and social support needed to pursue their goals despite their status-related limitation.

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Fostering existential well-being: mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California

Cited by 2 publications

References 41 publications

“You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality.

“You gotta keep pushing”: Immigrant people regaining ontological security and withstanding coloniality.

From lost to leading: How undocumented student resource centers are transforming student lives

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