Lives in Limbo : Undocumented and Coming of Age in America /

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"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it." -Esperanza Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigratio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gonzales, Roberto G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
Children of illegal aliens > Education > United States.
Children of illegal aliens > Social conditions > United States.
Children of illegal aliens > United States > Education.
Children of illegal aliens > United States > Social conditions.
anthropologist.
broken immigration system.
college student.
college-goer.
daca.
dream act.
economist.
future of an undocumented worker.
k-12 schools.
linguist.
manual laborers.
mexican american immigrants.
mexican american youth.
sociologist.
twelve-year study.
uncertain future.
undocumented immigrants.
united states immigration policies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it." -Esperanza Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, Lives in Limbo exposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:9780520962415
9783110663341
9783110621112
9783110657487
Acceso:restricted access

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