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Citizenship without Papers

A Case Study of Undocumented Youth Fighting for In-State Tuition Policy

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Immigration and Education in North Carolina

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North Carolina is one of 32 states that requires undocumented college students to pay out-of-state tuition, no matter how long they have lived in the state. In the struggle for tuition equity, youth across the country have turned to grassroots organizing and lobbying.

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  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    Xue Lan Rong

  2. University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

    Jeremy Hilburn

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Parkhouse, H., Freeman, E. (2016). Citizenship without Papers. In: Rong, X.L., Hilburn, J. (eds) Immigration and Education in North Carolina. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-809-9_6

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