ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how migrant students experience multiple social identities and contexts, and experience different kinds of history that condition their college access. It focuses on the relationship between migrant Latino identities and illustrates the importance of using a framework of intersectionality to conceptualize identities, social contexts, and historical ecologies that are salient to migrant communities. Although there may be common conceptions of migrant students’ backgrounds, migrant students have diverse social identities and inhabit a variety of social contexts. Migrant students come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including Latino and Asian American. Migrant students reside in different states with different college access policies. Multiple research methods have been used to study Migrant Student Leadership Institute participants’ college outreach and access experiences and outcomes. Clearly, migrant students are well aware of the power dynamics in society limiting their educational opportunities.
