Undocumented Latino Youth: Navigating Their Worlds (Latinos: Exploring Diversity and Change) - Softcover

Clark-Ibáñez, Marisol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162637595X ISBN 13: 9781626375956

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2017

Synopsis

Though often overlooked in heated debates, nearly 1.8 million undocumented immigrants are under the age of 18. How do immigration policies shape the lives of these young people? How do local and state laws that are seemingly unrelated to undocumented communities negatively affect them? Marisol Clark-Ibáñez delivers an intimate look at growing up as an undocumented Latino immigrant, analyzing the social and legal dynamics that shape everyday life in and out of school.
CONTENTS:

• Undocumented Immigration: Dreams of Education and Beyond.
• Immigration Policy: Living with the Law.
• Elementary School: The Beginning and the Promise.
• Middle School: Creating New Paths.
• High School: Aspirations with Uncertainty.
• Community College: A Gateway.
• The University: A (Mostly) Safe Haven.
• After College Graduation: Bittersweet.
• DREAMer Activism: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Being a "DREAM Keeper": Lessons Learned.
• Rethinking the American Dream.
• Appendixes.

About this title

About the Author:

Marisol Clark-Ibáñez is associate professor of sociology at California State University, San Marcos.

Review:

An invaluable, impressively researched, exceptionally well written, organized and presented study.... [It] will prove of immense value to both scholars and non-specialist general readers. (Helen Dumont, Midwest Book Review)

A must read.... Provides compelling examples of resilience, struggle, and activism. (Gilda L. Ochoa, Pomona College)

Essential.... Sheds light on how the racist implementation of immigration policies trickles down to shape the lives of children and young people in and out of school. (Leisy J. Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 162637595X
• ISBN 13: 9781626375956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273