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Lives in Limbo
Roberto G. Gonzales
Jose Antonio Vargas
其他書名
Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2015-12-08
主題
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0520287258
9780520287259
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XdskDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
ÒMy world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like IÕm moving backward. And I canÕt do anything about it.
Ó ÐEsperanza
Over two million of the nationÕs 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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