Lives in limbo : undocumented and coming of age in America

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzales, Roberto G., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Children of illegal aliens > United States > Social conditions.
Children of illegal aliens > United States > Education.
Table of Contents:
  • Contested membership over time
  • Undocumented young adults in Los Angeles : college goers and early exiters
  • Childhood : inclusion and belonging
  • School as a site of belonging and conflict
  • Adolescence : beginning transitions to illegality
  • Early exiters : learning to live on the margins
  • College-goers : managing the distance between aspirations and reality
  • Adulthood : how immigration status becomes a master status
  • Conclusion : managing lives in limbo.

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