Perchance to Dream: A Legal and Political History of the Dream ACT and Daca

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982,...
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Author: Michael A. Olivas
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Perchance to Dream: A Legal and Political History of the Dream ACT and Daca by Olivas, Michael A.

Perchance to Dream: A Legal and Political History of the Dream ACT and Daca

€77,89

Perchance to Dream: A Legal and Political History of the Dream ACT and Daca

€77,89
Author: Michael A. Olivas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children had the right to attend public schools without charge or impediment, regardless of their immigration status. The ruling raised a question: what if undocumented students, after graduating from the public school system, wanted to attend college?

Perchance to DREAM is the first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act, which made its initial congressional appearance in 2001, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the discretionary program established by President Obama in 2012 out of Congressional failure to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Michael A. Olivas relates the history of the DREAM Act and DACA over the course of two decades.

With the Trump Administration challenging the legality of DACA and pursuing its elimination in 2017, the fate of DACA is uncertain. Perchance to DREAM follows the political participation of DREAMers, who have been taken hostage as pawns in a cruel game as the White House continues to advocate anti-immigrant policies. Perchance to DREAM brings to light the many twists and turns that the legislation has taken, suggests why it has not gained the required traction, and offers hopeful pathways that could turn this darkness to dawn.

Author: Michael A. Olivas
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 06/16/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781479878284


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2020
Library Journal 06/05/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
Olivas, Michael A.: - Michael A. Olivas is William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at UH. His books include Colored Men And Hombres Aquí Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering; The Law And Higher Education: Cases And Materials on Colleges in Court Third Edition; and Education Law Stories (with Ronna Greff Schneider).

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