Producing (im)Possible Peoples: Policy Discourse Analysis, In-state Resident Tuition, and Undocumented Students in American Higher Education

Abstract

0 0 1 98 565 The Center for Education Policy and Research 4 1 662 14.0 96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 0 0 1 97 556 The Center for Education Policy and Research 4 1 652 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 72 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This paper examines 12 states’ statutes that extend in-state resident tuition for undocumented students, illustrating their ambiguities and contradictions as they produce the subject in these on-going policy debates. This study asks and answers the question: “How are students' identities produced in ISRT policy?” At stake in this question are the discursive opportunities made available for enabling and/or constraining higher education opportunity, particularly for undocumented students. Findings point to a contradictory set of identities simultaneously made possible and impossible for undocumented students pursuing American higher education.