An Intersectional Multicultural Approach to Advising and Counseling Transborder Mexican‐American Men in the Community College

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to propose multicultural gender‐aware counseling practices from an intersectionality perspective to advising Mexican‐American men in the community college who live a transborder lifestyle in the San Diego–Tijuana region.

Strategies and support services for community college Latino/x men on academic probation.

“…HCC community college staff, and peer institutions, may consider using asset-based counseling practices that draw from validation theory (Huerta, 2022;Rendon, 1994), mattering (Huerta & Fishman, 2014), or other frameworks that place the onus on college staff members to perform the necessary equity-based work with students. It is vital to engage and foster lasting relationships that empower Latino/x men to succeed academically and professionally within community colleges (Falco ´n Orta et al, 2018).…”