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About this book
“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.
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.
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Information
Undocumented
Young
Adults
in
Los
Angeles
|
57
inhabit
a
world
narrowly
circumscribed
by
their
legal
limitations.
But
for
them
these
limitations
are
temporarily
eclipsed
by
a
pervasive
sense
of
promise
and
optimism.
Freed
from
burdensome
family
responsibilities
and
the
need
to
take
on
full-time
jobs,
college-goers
are
less
threatened
than
early
exiters
by
the
worries
of
daily
survival
and
possible
apprehen-
sion.
Their
world
extends
farther,
reaching
outward
to
their
college
cam-
puses
and
into
the
lives
of
teachers,
mentors,
professors,
and
a
diverse
group
of
peers.
In
early
adulthood,
college-goers’
lives
reflect
a
sense
of
belonging,
cultivated
much
earlier
in
childhood,
which
provides
them
with
a
longer
view
into
the
future
and
a
stronger
belief
in
possibility.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Contested Membership over Time
- 2. Undocumented Young Adults in Los Angeles: College-Goers and Early Exiters
- 3. Childhood: Inclusion and Belonging
- 4. School as a Site of Belonging and Conflict
- 5. Adolescence: Beginning the Transition to Illegality
- 6. Early Exiters: Learning to Live on the Margins
- 7. College-Goers: Managing the Distance between Aspirations and Reality
- 8. Adulthood: How Immigration Status Becomes a Master Status
- 9. Conclusion: Managing Lives in Limbo
- Notes
- References
- Index