Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin

Blake R. Silver is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Educational Pathways and Faculty Development at George Mason University. He is the author of The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses (2020), which won an American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Book Award and the NASPA Faculty Council Outstanding Publication Award. Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at George Mason University. Informed by her experiences as a first-generation college student of immigrant origin, she has over twenty years of experience as a scholar-practitioner centered around holistic student development, increasing access to higher education, mattering, community-building, and creating inclusive learning spaces.

Foreword; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Understanding college students of immigrant origin Blake R. Silver and Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron; 2. The college enrollment process for students of immigrant origin Phoebe Ho; 3. Multilingual adolescent mentors and tailored college knowledge for immigrant students Melanie Jones Gast, Yohimar Sivira-Gonzalez, James S. Chisholm and Trisha Douin; 4. The role of family histories in students of immigrant origin's aspirations and college decision-making process Leslie Patricia Luqueño; 5. Complicating college readiness for students of immigrant origin Marilyn Garcia-Fragoso and Diego E. Alemán; Part II. Experiences: 6. Funds of knowledge as strategic food and campus navigation at selective, affluent universities Nathan F. Alleman, Sarah E. Madsen, and Cara Cliburn Allen; 7. Psychosocial stressors and coping strategies in racially and ethnically diverse undocumented college students Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Kathryn Sabella, and Alessandra Bazo Vienrich; 8. How colleges can support working students of immigrant origin Janese Free and Katrin Križ; 9. First-generation college women of immigrant origin and perspectives on the role of gender in their experiences on- and off-campus Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, Sara Montiel and Sharrell Hassell-Goodman; 10. Second generation afghan immigrants navigating racial and ethnic identity in college Omar Aziz; 11. The COVID-19 pandemic and undocumented Hispanic/Latino/x college men Luis Ponjuán, Rodrigo Aguayo, Jase Kugiya, Armando Lizarraga, Emmet Campos and Victor Sáenz; Part III. Institutional Arrangements: 12. Student success considerations for first-generation, working-class latinx college students Norma A. Nuñez-Pacheco and Georgianna L. Martin; 13. Honoring immigrant college students' funds of knowledge through appreciative advising Jayne K. Sommers, Joel Navam and Matthew A. Witenstein; 14. How institutional policies and practices impact black immigrant college students' experiences Dayne Hutchinson, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, Dawn Ogali-Frederic and Martha Kakooza; 15. Understanding the personal support networks of first-generation college students from immigrant backgrounds Andrea Lopez Salazar, Hoori Santikian Kalamkarian, and Melissa L. Herman; 16. Institutional responsibility for international student well-being and belongingness Madhunika sai Suresh, James D. Wagnon, Terra N. Hall, Rebecca M. Campos, Sharon Wakio, Edgar Virgüez and Jenny Sperling; Part IV. Looking forward: 17. Exploring the postsecondary experiences and aspirations of newcomer college students Aaron Leo; 18. Supporting undocumented students through pre-college, college, and post-college transitions Elizabeth A. Jach, Daniel Corral, Gerardo Mancilla and Stacey R. Hansen; 19. Stemming undocumented student departure from higher education Yesenia Muruato and Jon K. Coleman; 20. A Duoethnography of immigrant educators' experiences in higher education Michelle Maria Leao and Stephen John Quaye; Epilogue: Community as resistance and rebellion for aspiring educators of immigrant origin Amanda Frye and Tina Cheuk.