LEADER 04515nam 2200841 450 001 9910797754003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-96241-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520962415 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513410 035 $a(EBL)4068988 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001570669 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16220244 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570669 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12774063 035 $a(PQKB)10923205 035 $a(DE-B1597)518689 035 $a(OCoLC)1102805786 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520962415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4068988 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11153311 035 $a(OCoLC)940518640 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4068988 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513410 100 $a20160216h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#nnnunuun 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLives in limbo $eundocumented and coming of age in America /$fRoberto G. Gonzales ; with a foreword by Jose Antonio Vargas 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (318 pages) 311 $a0-520-28726-6 311 $a0-520-28725-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gChapter 1.$tContested Membership over Time --$gChapter 2.$tUndocumented Young Adults in Los Angeles: College-Goers and Early Exiters --$gChapter 3.$tChildhood: Inclusion and Belonging --$gChapter 4.$tSchool as a Site of Belonging and Conflict --$gChapter 5.$tAdolescence: Beginning the Transition to Illegality --$gChapter 6.$tEarly Exiters: Learning to Live on the Margins --$gChapter 7.$tCollege-Goers: Managing the Distance between Aspirations and Reality --$gChapter 8.$tAdulthood: How Immigration Status Becomes a Master Status --$gChapter 9.$tConclusion: Managing Lives in Limbo. 330 $a"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. 606 $aChildren of noncitizens$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aChildren of noncitizens$zUnited States$xEducation 606 $aIllegal immigration 610 $aanthropologist. 610 $abroken immigration system. 610 $acollege student. 610 $acollege-goer. 610 $adaca. 610 $adream act. 610 $aeconomist. 610 $afuture of an undocumented worker. 610 $ak-12 schools. 610 $alinguist. 610 $amanual laborers. 610 $amexican american immigrants. 610 $amexican american youth. 610 $asociologist. 610 $atwelve-year study. 610 $auncertain future. 610 $aundocumented immigrants. 610 $aunited states immigration policies. 615 0$aChildren of noncitizens$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aChildren of noncitizens$xEducation. 615 0$aIllegal immigration. 676 $a305.23086/9120973 700 $aGonzales$b Roberto G.$f1969-$01575266 702 $aVargas$b Jose Antonio 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797754003321 996 $aLives in limbo$93852072 997 $aUNINA