Documenting the Undocumented

CLAS Seed Grant    "Documenting the Undocumented" is a research and public humanities project that seeks to document the lives of undocumented students and, in the process, create a public conversation about what it means to be an immigrant and an American. It builds on traditional oral history field research techniques to pioneer new approaches to community led oral history training, oral history collecting and archiving, and public programming. A coalition made up of ASU Public History, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, and the UTEP Institute of Oral History will lead the project, bringing together a team of nationally-recognized oral historians, public humanists, and social activists to focus initially on collecting and archiving the undocumented student movement within the US-Mexico borderlands, from Texas and New Mexico through Arizona and California.