Defying Higher Education Borders with Migrant Students in Canada

Paloma E. Villegas is associate professor of critical migration studies in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino.Tanya Aberman is the coordinator of the Sanctuary Scholars programs at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University.

This book shines a critical light on migrant youth access to higher education, shifting the discussion away from complementary pathways, to explore this issue through the lives of migrants already living within the Canadian border. Young people at the centre of this study are not defined by their immigration status, but as students with lives and dreams that can be both recognised and met by Canadian universities. The book effectively translates research grounded in practice, into a ready-made agenda for universities to pick up and run with.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Journey to the Access ProgramChapter 2: “Undocumented 101”: Narrating Illegalization in the Affective Immigrant ClassroomChapter 3: “It Was Excitement Mixed with Relief Mixed with Hope, but There Was Still Some Trepidation”: Dis/connections in HE and in the ClassroomChapter 4: “Much has not changed from the past”: Creating Counterstories to Canadian Nation-Building and Immigration PolicyConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Authors