Lives in limbo : undocumented and coming of age in America /

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, wh...

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Main Author: Gonzales, Roberto G., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Contested membership over time -- Undocumented young adults in Los Angeles : the 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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