Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood
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DOI：
10.1177/0003122411411901
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Gonzales, Roberto G.
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作者：
Gonzales, Roberto G.
本文探讨了 1.5 代无证拉丁裔年轻人向成年的过渡。对他们来说，向成年的过渡包括退出受法律保护的K至12学生身份，进入需要法律身份作为参与基础的成人角色。这种环境之间的冲突导致了一场动荡的转变，并对身份形成、友谊模式、愿望和期望以及社会和经济流动性产生了深远的影响。无证儿童从受保护到不受保护，从包容到排斥，从事实上合法到非法。在这个过程中，他们必须学会违法，这种转变涉及日常生活、生存技能、愿望和社会模式的几乎彻底的重组。这些发现对于研究 1.5 代和第二代以及法律地位干预他们成年的具体而复杂的方式具有重要意义。本文基于对南加州无证 1.5 代年轻拉丁裔拉丁裔的 150 次采访。
This article examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults. For them, the transition to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to 12 students and entering into adult roles that require legal status as the basis for participation. This collision among contexts makes for a turbulent transition and has profound implications for identity formation, friendship patterns, aspirations and expectations, and social and economic mobility. Undocumented children move from protected to unprotected, from inclusion to exclusion, from de facto legal to illegal. In the process, they must learn to be illegal, a transformation that involves the almost complete retooling of daily routines, survival skills, aspirations, and social patterns. These findings have important implications for studies of the 1.5- and second-generations and the specific and complex ways in which legal status intervenes in their coming of age. The article draws on 150 interviews with undocumented 1.5-generation young adult Latinos in Southern California.