Undocumented Latino youth : navigating their worlds / Marisol Clark-Ib�a�nez.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Latinos, exploring diversity and changePublisher: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2015Description: xii, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781626372603
  • 1626372608
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 184 .S75 C53 2015
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.
Summary: "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-Ib�a�nez 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."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.

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.

"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-Ib�a�nez 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."--Book jacket.

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