1st Edition

Living the Dream New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

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