Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth (New Critical Viewpoints on Society) - Hardcover

Chavez, Maria; Lavariega Monforti, Jessica L; Michelson, Melissa R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612057128 ISBN 13: 9781612057125

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1612057128
• ISBN 13: 9781612057125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192