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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Contested Membership over Time
  • Chapter 2. Undocumented Young Adults in Los Angeles: College-Goers and Early Exiters
  • Chapter 3. Childhood: Inclusion and Belonging
  • Chapter 4. School as a Site of Belonging and Conflict
  • Chapter 5. Adolescence: Beginning the Transition to Illegality
  • Chapter 6. Early Exiters: Learning to Live on the Margins
  • Chapter 7. College-Goers: Managing the Distance between Aspirations and Reality
  • Chapter 8. Adulthood: How Immigration Status Becomes a Master Status
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: Managing Lives in Limbo
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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