04515nam 2200841 450 991080860520332120200520144314.00-520-96241-910.1525/9780520962415(CKB)3710000000513410(EBL)4068988(SSID)ssj0001570669(PQKBManifestationID)16220244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570669(PQKBWorkID)12774063(PQKB)10923205(DE-B1597)518689(OCoLC)1102805786(DE-B1597)9780520962415(Au-PeEL)EBL4068988(CaPaEBR)ebr11153311(OCoLC)940518640(MiAaPQ)EBC4068988(EXLCZ)99371000000051341020160216h20162016 uy 0engurcn#nnnunuuntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLives in limbo undocumented and coming of age in America /Roberto G. Gonzales ; with a foreword by Jose Antonio VargasOakland, California :University of California Press,2016.©20161 online resource (318 pages)0-520-28726-6 0-520-28725-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Children of noncitizensUnited StatesSocial conditionsChildren of noncitizensUnited StatesEducationIllegal immigrationanthropologist.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.Children of noncitizensSocial conditions.Children of noncitizensEducation.Illegal immigration.305.23086/9120973Gonzales Roberto G.1969-1684830Vargas Jose AntonioMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808605203321Lives in limbo4056493UNINA