Literature Review

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"The Undocumented Americans" Reading Group

Reading Group will be lead by professor Hernan Ramirez & Melody Klingenfuss 

This reading group will explore author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio book "The Undocumented Americans." Author Villavicencio begins her textbook by, "Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented—and the mysteries of her own life. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects."

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"Lives in Limbo" Reading Group

Reading Group will be lead by professor Hernan Ramirez

"Lives in Limbo" is a book written by Harvard University Sociology professor, Roberto G. Gonzales. This book mines the results of a 12 year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, Robert G. Gonzales sheds light on the disastrous effects immigration policies have had on more than two millions children coming of age in the United States. He shows that highly educated undocumented youth shared similar work and life outsocmes with their less educated peers despite the fact that education is touted as the path to integration and success for immigrants in America. With powerful prose, Lives in Limbo questions the functions of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the reward of their labor.