Advanced Immigration 2025-2026

By RAMYA BANGURA Immigrant identity in American schools shifts depending on context. For first and second-generation students, especially, identity is about how you are seen, how you are expected to act, and how you learn to navigate spaces that were not necessarily designed with you in mind. Through conversations with a first-generation Chinese student, a…

By FLORA ADAIR The first time I held a conversation in Spanish was while walking by Plaza de Espana in the late September sun with my little host sister Rebeca. I had been in Spain for five weeks, but she still had to tug me along with her hands because I couldn’t understand her foreign…

By Valerie Madriz The label of the United States of America as a land of opportunity has romanticized it as a sanctuary for immigrants, particularly people with low incomes, and this idealization diverts attention from the racialized hierarchies that privilege certain groups over others. The American Dream functions as a sociopolitical myth—one that claims egalitarian opportunity…