{"product_id":"lives-in-limbo-undocumented-and-coming-of-age-in-america-9780520287266","title":"Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it.\u003c\/i\u003e\" -Esperanza \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over two million of the nation's 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 \u003ci\u003eLives in Limbo, \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLives in Limbo \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto G. Gonzales \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His work has been featured in such social science journals as the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sociological Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCurrent Anthropology, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412599902482,"sku":"9780520287266","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_513502f7-4e92-4f6e-b1c7-5591c78faa20.jpg?v=1729318274","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lives-in-limbo-undocumented-and-coming-of-age-in-america-9780520287266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}