UndocuFilmmakers Collective, Culture Strike, and Jesús Iñiguez are hosting an online short film festival called “Beyond Status” that features stories by migrant filmmakers! “Beyond Status” is a series of short form films produced by The Center for Cultural Power, written… Read More ›
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Summary of Series: “Navigating Covid-19: Reflections and Advice from and For Undocumented Communities”
At My Undocumented Life, with support from The UndocuScholars Project at UCLA, we commissioned undocumented community members to write posts with reflections and advice about navigating the Covid-19 pandemic. Alejandra, a recent graduate from Tufts University, shares her experiences about… Read More ›
Job Opportunity: Raise Organizer to work with Undocumented Asian Communities!
“Revolutionizing Asian Immigrant Stories on the East Coast (RAISE) seeks an organizer to join our team. Founded in 2012, RAISE was created to provide a safe space to undocumented youth in Asian immigrant communities, provide them with a grassroots organizing… Read More ›
6th Annual International Conference on Border Studies: Now Accepting Proposals for Presentations
Hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, “The theme of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Border Studies is Transborderism: Reimagining Social Space. We solicit proposals that contribute to the new and critical thinking on global borders and… Read More ›
My Journey to Academia as a Formerly Undocumented Scholar
By DAYSI I was unsure whether I would ever enroll in college after high school, let alone become a professor and researcher. My journey to higher education mirrors the experiences of many undocumented immigrants and deeply motivated my work in the… Read More ›
(Un)studied Complicity: Cross-examining Undocumented Immigrant Student Participation in the U.S. Education System
Guest interview featuring Alonso As part of the UndocuScholarship series at My Undocumented Life, we had the opportunity to interview Alonso who is currently the Middle School & Family Engagement Director and Ethnic Studies Adjunct Faculty at Salt Lake Community… Read More ›
Towards UndocuScholarship: Using Our Lived Experiences to Craft Space and Representation in Academia
By RAFA Have you ever heard the common expression, “life is like a movie”? As a four-year-old child, who arrived with my family in South Central, Los Angeles in the early 90s, my life felt like a movie. However, the movie… Read More ›
Meet Our Team
MEET OUR TEAM Carolina is the Founder and Executive Director of My Undocumented Life. Since 2011, the blog has served as a platform for undocumented communities to obtain up-to-date information and resources on pursuing higher education, immigration policies, and much… Read More ›
Book Launch: 𝐋𝐱𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐱𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬
Lxs Otrxs Dreamers es un libro que se convirtió en comunidad y hoy te invitamos a la presentación de su segunda edición! Join us para seguir leyendo, narrando y re narrando nuestras historias, para generar conexienes entre nuestras comunidades translocales y sus luchas.
[Guest Covid19 series post] Reflections from a DACA Educator in the Time of Covid-19
By DENISE Teaching virtually in the time of Covid-19 under an explicitly anti-immigrant administration is something I never expected to do in my wildest imagination. I am currently a DACA recipient and middle school educator. DACA has allowed me to obtain… Read More ›