Monday, February 8, 2016

Topic Proposal

With more and more immigrant families in the United States, the number of students who may want to attend college grows in those families. Some of those kids are children of immigrants, while others are immigrants themselves. The topic I'm deciding to do my research in has to do with the struggles a college student that is an immigrant or a child of immigrant parents may face. Whether these challenges be the price, the culture change, or the pressures of being the outbreak of the family, the challenges these individuals can sometimes cause for them to be over pressured.

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  1. The "first generation" topic is very interesting in itself, but adding "from an immigrant family" makes this even more potentially complex and interesting, especially because the two categories do overlap but also complicate each other. If you can find a way to tie together the issues connected with both the immigrant and first generation experiences on campus, especially around "social integration" I imagine, then this could be a very strong paper.

    Several students have written on the "first gen" experience over the years and looking at their blogs may give you some ideas, especially regarding sources. Here were two relatively recent examples:
    http://lavinascollegeblog.blogspot.com/
    http://natecollegeblog.blogspot.com/

    I have also had students write about issues of social integration among minority students. Two of the better projects were these:
    http://franksblogbodega.blogspot.com/
    http://natalies201collegeblog.blogspot.com/

    Look especially at the sources that these students used, as they might be helpful.

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    1. You might also be interested in student blogs about the DREAM Act and college, which connects to your topic to some extent and might at least be worth mentioning. In the lead-up to the DREAM Act in NJ, I had two students explore the topic:
      http://samanthascollegeblog.blogspot.com/
      http://nklock201collegeblog.blogspot.com/

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