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Central America
citizenship perceptions
discrimination
educational rights
educators
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fieldwork
focus groups
four-year ethnographic study
institutional support
interviews
local policies
participant-observations
policymakers
public schools
racial legacy
racism
school districts
school experiences
sense of belonging
social mobility barriers
social supports.
socio-political context
Sophia Rodriguez
Southern United States
state policies
Title I high schools
U.S. South
unaccompanied children
undocumented high school youth
Undocumented in the US South
undocumented students
Product details
- ISBN 9781978828827
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Undocumented in the U.S. South is a rare look into the everyday realities of undocumented youth in K-12 public schools. In an anti-immigrant policy context, youth and their families navigate historical and current legacies and realities of segregation, racial discrimination, and inequality. With a deep three-year ethnographic study, hundreds of hours of observational research, interviews, and policy analysis, Sophia Rodriguez traces the lives of undocumented youth across multiple public school settings. Her research underscores how these youth are racialized through state policies, school and organizational practices, and everyday interactions with educators and peers. As the first study of its kind to combine this unique framework for analysis, Undocumented in the U.S. South sheds light on the challenges youth face in their everyday struggle to belong. Rodriguez invites us to consider youth experiences as central knowledge for improving educators’ awareness and school practice, while promoting policies that are humanizing and rooted in youth experience.
SOPHIA RODRIGUEZ is an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in New York City. She is the coauthor of Race Frames in Education: Structuring Inequality and Opportunity in a Changing Educational Landscape.
