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Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life

by Garc

Decades lived in legal limbo

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Decades lived in legal limbo

Drawing on longitudinal fieldwork, the book examines undocumented Mexican immigrants who arrived in the United States as young adults and have reached middle age without a path to legalization. Its focus on parents who would have qualified for the unsuccessful Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program connects individual life histories with the consequences of unresolved immigration status. Time and waiting are central subjects: the account considers how prolonged legal uncertainty shapes lives across decades.

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Readers interested in undocumented Mexican immigrants’ experiences across adulthood.
Readers studying immigration, legal status, or the effects of prolonged uncertainty on families.
Readers interested in longitudinal fieldwork on migration and midlife.

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Undocumented immigrationLegal and temporal uncertaintyWaiting and deferred hopes for legalizationParenthood and migration

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Enduring Illegality chronicles the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants who have spent decades in the United States waiting for a path to legalization that has yet to arrive. Based on longitudinal fieldwork, this book traces how people who migrated as young adults have transitioned into middle age still undocumented, caught in a state of legal and temporal suspension. Focusing on parents who would have qualified for the failed Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program, Angela S. Garc

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