Other Lectures

Title

Lives in Limbo

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

1 hour 31 minutes 10 seconds

Publication Date

5-4-2017

Disciplines

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Education Policy | Family, Life Course, and Society | Higher Education | Inequality and Stratification | Migration Studies | Race and Ethnicity | Secondary Education

Abstract

Dr. Roberto Gonzales (assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education) discusses his book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, which chronicles his 12-year research study on 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, California. Lives in Limbo is a vivid ethnography that 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 the United States. Gonzales explains the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.

Comments

Sponsored by the Linfield College Office of Academic Affairs, the Linfield College Office of the President, the Jereld R. Nicholson Library, Unidos Bridging Community, and the Linfield College Diversity Advisory Committee.

Share

COinS