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Shifting Boundaries - Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics (Paperback)
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Shifting Boundaries - Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics (Paperback)
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As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million
unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented
youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine
their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely
to crumble around them as to come within reach. In Shifting
Boundaries, Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the currents of
exclusion and incorporation that characterize their lives. Silver
examines the experiences of immigrant youth growing up in a small
town in North Carolina—a state that experienced unprecedented
growth in its Latino population in the 1990s and 2000s, and where
aggressive anti-immigration policies have been enforced. Drawing on
ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interview data, she finds that
contradictory policies at the national, state, and local levels
interact to create a complex environment through which the youth
must navigate. From heritage-based school programs to state-wide
bans on attending community college; from the failure of the DREAM
Act to the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA); each layer represents profound implications for
undocumented Latino youth. Silver exposes the constantly changing
pathways that shape their journeys into early adulthood—and the
profound resilience that they develop along the way.
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