Lives in limbo : undocumented and coming of age in America / / Roberto G. Gonzales ; with a foreword by Jose Antonio Vargas

• Autore: Gonzales Roberto G. <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.23086/9120973
• Soggetto topico: Children of noncitizens - United States - Social conditions; Children of noncitizens - United States - Education; Illegal immigration
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): VargasJose Antonio
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lives in limbo
• ISBN: 0-520-96241-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808605203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II