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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzales, Roberto G., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : 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 : 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.