PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chang, Aurora
TI  - Undocumented to Hyperdocumented: A Jornada of Protection, Papers, and PhD Status
AID  - 10.17763/haer.81.3.d84532vu27772424
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 508--521
VI  - 81
IP  - 3
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/81/3/508.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/81/3/508.full
SO  - herp2011 Sep 01; 81
AB  - In this personal essay, Aurora Chang describes her experience of hyperdocumentation—the effort to accrue awards, accolades, and eventually academic degrees to compensate for her undocumented status. In spite of her visible successes and naturalization,Chang still confronts the rage and intolerance of American "commonsense"beliefs about immigration. Her narrative questions the pursuit of documentation as a means to legitimacy and acceptance in American society.