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Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

English

By (author): Roberto G. Gonzales

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2015
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520287266

About Roberto G. Gonzales

Roberto G. Gonzales is Assistant Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His work has been featured in such social science journals as the American Sociological Review and Current Anthropology as well as in the New York Times Washington Post Los Angeles Times Wall Street Journal Time magazine U.S. News & World Report and Chronicle of Higher Education.

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