The students we share: falling through the cracks on both sides of the US-Mexico border

Documentation Status and Youth’s Critical Consciousness across Borders

“…Mexico and the U.S. have one of the most expansive histories of immigration and schooling, including multidirectional movement across their shared border (Gándara 2020). Although this migration is often assumed to move from South to North, since 2005, this has shifted, with more Mexicans returning to Mexico than arriving in the U.S. (Gonzalez-Barrera 2015).…”

Mixed‐Status Siblings Now in Mexico: How U.S. Documentation and Transborder Experiences Shape Pathways across Borders

“…In practice many U.S.-born or U.S.-schooled children have faced significant obstacles approving their schooling paperwork, and it can take months or years to successfully enroll in Mexican schools (Jacobo and Espinosa Cárdenas 2016). Recent advocacy has helped streamline this process and eliminate some of the barriers such as costly official translations of documents, yet challenges in schooling enrollment still exist (Gándara 2020) and sometimes push children out of schooling and higher education once they relocate to Mexico (Anderson and Solis 2014). The students in this study represent those who successfully enrolled in schools despite these challenges, and thus Mexican undocumentedness did not deeply constrain their educational and work lives in Mexico.…”

Formação binacional de professores: o caso da fronteira do Arizona

“…A criminalização de imigrantes por Trump tem um impacto aterrorizante sobre os alunos nas escolas (Gándara, 2020). "Existem muitas histórias de crianças com medo de frequentar a escola por receio de que seus pais não estejam mais em casa quando voltarem e temerosas de dormir à noite, esperando pela batida dos agentes de imigração e de execução" (Gándara, 2020, p. 44).…”

“…Um estudo recente com cinco mil educadores, conduzido pelo Projeto de Direitos Civis da Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles − UCLA (Gándara, 2020), revelou a sombria realidade das questões relativas à escolarização entre os jovens imigrantes. Dois terços dos professores relataram que, como consequência do regime de repressão, seus alunos imigrantes apresentavam um declínio no desempenho acadêmico.…”