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Harvard Educational Review Vol. 85 No. 3 Fall 2015
Copyright © by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undocumented Undergraduates on
College Campuses: Understanding
Their Challenges and Assets
and What It Takes to Make an
Undocufriendly Campus
CAROLA SUÁREZ-OROZCO
DALAL KATSIAFICAS
OLIVIA BIRCHALL
CYNTHIA M. ALCANTAR
EDWIN HERNANDEZ
YULIANA GARCIA
MINAS MICHIKYAN
JANET CERDA
ROBERT T. TERANISHI
University of California, Los Angeles
In this article, Carola Suárez-Orozco and colleagues investigate how to improve
undocumented undergraduate student experiences across a variety of US cam-
puses. The authors draw on a national survey of diverse undocumented under-
graduates attending two- and four-year public and private institutions of higher
education. Using an ecological framework that accounts for risk and resilience, Suárez-
Orozco and colleagues provide insights into the challenges undocumented under-
graduates face and the assets they bring as they navigate their educational contexts.
The authors also consider the role of campuses in shaping these experiences and make
recommendations, based on quantitative data and the perspectives of students, for
creating undocufriendly campuses.