CHICANO M156A
Immigrant Rights, Labor, and Higher Education
Description: (Same as Asian American Studies M166A and Labor and Workplace Studies M166A.) Seminar, three hours. New immigrant rights movement, with particular attention to labor and higher education. Overview of history of immigrant rights movement and examination of development of coalition efforts between labor movement and immigrant rights movement nationally and locally. Special focus on issue of immigrant students in higher education, challenges facing undocumented immigrant students, and legislative and policy issues that have emerged. Students conduct oral histories, family histories, research on immigration and immigrant rights, write poetry and spoken word about immigrant experience, and work to collectively develop student publication on immigrant students in higher education. P/NP or letter grading.
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Winter 2018 - I took this class with Ignacia Rodriguez. During my quarter the bulk of the class was organizing a forum regarding DACA. Ignacia is at the forefront of the immigrants right movement and acts an attorney for the local community. There are no midterms and there is a short essay on Your Immigration Story due at the end of the quarter. Lectures can be long, but are split into a lecture portion where you listen to Ignacia or guest lecturers speak about the current political climate; then a group portion where you work to organize the event. Material is interesting and often revolves around undocubruins.
Winter 2018 - I took this class with Ignacia Rodriguez. During my quarter the bulk of the class was organizing a forum regarding DACA. Ignacia is at the forefront of the immigrants right movement and acts an attorney for the local community. There are no midterms and there is a short essay on Your Immigration Story due at the end of the quarter. Lectures can be long, but are split into a lecture portion where you listen to Ignacia or guest lecturers speak about the current political climate; then a group portion where you work to organize the event. Material is interesting and often revolves around undocubruins.