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Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

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“Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America” will take place Friday, May 6, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Idea Room 159 at the Education Building, 1000 Bascom.

Roberto G. Gonzales explores the trajectories of two groups of differently achieving young adults, the college-goers and the early-exiters, mining the results of an extraordinary 12-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, CA. In Lives in Limbo, Gonzales sheds light on the disastrous effects of immigration policies and questions the function of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.

Dr. Roberto Gonzales of the Harvard University School of Education is a qualitative sociologist whose research focuses on the ways in which legal and educational institutions shape the everyday experiences of poor, minority, and immigrant youth along the life course. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on undocumented immigrant youth and young adults.