Papers by Francisco Villegas
Bordering occurs beyond ports of entry. It operates in spaces where immigration status is examine... more Bordering occurs beyond ports of entry. It operates in spaces where immigration status is examined in order to participate or access a public good. In Ontario, schools serve as borders and often exclude undocumented migrant on the basis of status. At the same time, community activists work to erode border-zones and redefine “membership.” This project tracks and analyzes one such initiative. It historicizes constructions of membership in relation to the Toronto District School Board and its “Students Without Legal Immigration Status Policy.” This policy, discursively known as a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy stipulates that the Board would protect students by barring employees from asking, reporting, or sharing information regarding a family’s immigration-status. However, the policy remains to be fully implemented, the Board has constructed procedures that make enrolment more difficult, and undocumented students continue to experience exclusion. . Thus, this project addresses ...
Critical schooling: transformative theory and practice, 2019
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Given that Latino men and their unique educational experiences are rarely studied separately from... more Given that Latino men and their unique educational experiences are rarely studied separately from their Latina counterparts, this study addressed Latino men's perceptions of their educational environment, cultural congruity within the university environment, and how their coping responses predicted their subsequent well-being. Participants (N = 100) were primarily first-generation students whose most commonly reported coping response was actively finding out
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
In Goldring L. & Landolt, P. Producing and Negotiating Precarious Legal Status in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2013
In George Dei & Marlon Simmons, Fanon and education: thinking through pedagogical possibilities, 2010
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
Given that Latino men and their unique educational experiences are rarely studied separately from... more Given that Latino men and their unique educational experiences are rarely studied separately from their Latina counterparts, this study addressed Latino men's perceptions of their educational environment, cultural congruity within the university environment, and how their coping responses predicted their subsequent well-being. Participants (N = 100) were primarily first-generation students whose most commonly reported coping response was actively finding out
Books by Francisco Villegas
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed IdentityPublisher: Brill, 2019
In this chapter, we engage in an autoethnographic account of our experience as transnational bord... more In this chapter, we engage in an autoethnographic account of our experience as transnational border crossers. This reflection includes not only the act of crossing physical borders, but also the mixed identity produced through crossing class locations and privileged statuses. Through that discussion, we highlight the resilience of borders and the ways race, gender, and class, geographic location, and non-citizenship ameliorated or exacerbated our relative precarity, particularly our recognition of deportability and the pursuit of a livelihood.
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Papers by Francisco Villegas
Books by Francisco Villegas