Literature Review #2

For another one of my articles that I found for my research, H. Kenny Nienhusser, assistant professor at the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in the College of Education, Nursing, and Health Professions at the University of Hartford, is the author as well. In this article, titled "Undocumented Students' Experiences With Micro-aggressions During Their College Choice Process" he goes into depth on a study he did one twelve undocumented students, who are enrolled in community colleges. According to him, there is many forms of micro-aggressions; "The findings identify nine themes in the area of microaggressions that research participants faced during their college choice process: discriminatory financial aid policies, restricted college choice information, constrained life opportunities, denial of college opportunities, insensitive behaviors, insensitive college choice processes, narrowed college expectations, fear of coming out, and undocumented immigrant blindness"(Nienhusser). Micro-Aggressions, in short, is a way of attacking someone's person by forms of context that may not be noticed when said. This can be simply done by asking someone who seems from an indigenous background where they're from when referring to ethnicity. What can be shocking is the people who make the micro-aggressions; "We found that undocumented immigrants encountered cumulative episodes of microaggressions in their college choice process, sometimes delivered by well-intentioned institutional agents" (Nienhusser). I believe that workers of the university should be trained to not make these kind of aggressions towards students, even if they were innocent mistakes.

Like the first article, I believe Nienhusser will be a valuable resource to me, as he is  familiar with the subject.

Nienhusser, H. Kenny, Blanca E. Vega, and Mariella Cristina Saavedra Carquin. "Undocumented Students' Experiences With Microaggressions During Their College Choice Process." Teachers College Record 118.2 (2016): ERIC. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.