Lives in Limbo - Gonzales Roberto G.
Lives in Limbo - Gonzales Roberto G. "My world seems upside down. And I can't do anything about it." -EsperanzaOver two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in…
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Lives in Limbo - Gonzales Roberto G.
"My world seems upside down. And I can't do anything about it." -EsperanzaOver two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward.
In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. 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