This semester, as an Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Scholar I had the opportunity of collaborating with associate professor Annie Isabel Fukushima Ph.D., and the University of Utah Dream Center to enact what is called participatory action research regarding how notions of illegality impact undocumented students and students from mixed-status families in Utah. Participatory action research is a common form of community-based research where the researcher works in collaboration with the defined community. Action-oriented research involves the participants in the product/mean-making of the study. Therefore, this study invites participants to define the outcomes of the study through action-oriented activities as it relates to immigration.
More than a status
September 8, 2022