Living the Dream - New Immigration Policies and the Lives on Undocumented Latino Youth

In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified undocumented youth with his policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals forever changing the lives of the approximately five million DREAMers currently in the United States

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 “We Asked for Workers, but Human Beings Came”; Chapter 3 Flying under the Radar; Chapter 4 Living in Limbo; Chapter 5 Political Activism and Ethnic Identity; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

About the author

Maria Chávez, Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, Melissa R. Michelson

Summary

In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified undocumented youth with his policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals forever changing the lives of the approximately five million DREAMers currently in the United States. Formerly illegal, a generation of Latino youth have begun to build new lives based on their newfound legitimacy. In this book, the first to examine the lives of DREAMers in the wake of Obama s deferred action policy, the authors relay the real-life stories of more than 100 DREAMers from four states. They assess the life circumstances in which undocumented Latino youth find themselves, the racializing effects generated by current immigration public discourse, and the permanent impact of this policy environment on DREAMers in America."

Product details

• Authors: Maria Chaavez, Maria Chavez, Chavez Maria, Maria Chavez-Pringle, Maria/ Monforti Chavez-pringle, Jessica L Lavariega Monforti, Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, Melissa R Michelson, Melissa R. Michelson
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9781612057125
• ISBN: 978-1-61205-712-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: New Critical Viewpoints on Soc
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General