SOC 0832 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Natural Disaster, Model Minority, Work Permit
22 Jun 2018
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●What Problems of identity affect undocumented Asian immigrant students according to
Tambascia, Wang, Tcheng ad Biu
○Legal status affect ethnic identity. Isolation.
○Pressure from social image (stereotype) created by the “Model Minority Myth”
●Deferred Action for childhood Arrivals (DACA)
○Young people who were brought here illegally by their parents and are now ready
to go to college or work
○Requirements
■Have entered before june 15, 2007
■Be younger than 31
○Benefits
■Defers deportation for two years (renewable)
■Work permit
○Nearly 800,000 registered
●Are the DREAMERS foreigners or Americans?
●What can we say about their identity
●Characteristics of a “nation”
○A group conscious of forming a community ( moral community - emotional
attachment)
○Attached to a territory
○Sharing a common past and a project for the future
○Claiming rights of self-determination
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