Category: Thoughts
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(un)documentation & (dis)identification
Where and for whom is the undocumented immigrant*? *Here I mostly speak of myself (even if I use plural indicators) and this is not intended to generalize to every other experience, although if it does, great! Where? To discuss where I am, I want to situate myself as both within and between boundaries of social…
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whiteness in statistics
I’ll set the context so people see where I’m coming from. I’m an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, have lived here in the U.S. for 21 years, and my family learned english as a second language. You can say I understand the immigrant/foreign experience intimately. This morning I scrolled through Facebook and came across a question…
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hidden minority
I participated in a campaign for the Princeton Hidden Minority Council aimed at raising awareness for what it means to be a first-generation or underprivileged minority going to Princeton. I think it’s important to be exposed to our perspective and the typically unspoken problems we face here in this privilege bubble. Here is my submission:…