TY - JOUR
T1 - DACAmented in the age of deportation
T2 - navigating spaces of belonging and vulnerability in social and personal live
AU - Gonzales, Roberto G.
AU - Brant, Kristina
AU - Roth, Benjamin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We want to thank Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly and the anonymous peer reviewers for very helpful comments and suggestions. We have presented earlier drafts of this research at the Harvard Inequality in America Initiative Workshop Series, the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, and the Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation Conference at Princeton University, and we are particularly grateful to Mary Waters, Matt Barreto, and Patricia Gándara.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - Heightened immigration enforcement in public spaces has brightened the boundaries of exclusion for undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet, these immigrants simultaneously experience belonging and inclusion within the personal and social spheres of their lives. This article explores this tension among young people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Drawing on interviews with 408 DACA beneficiaries in six states, our analyses underscore the significance of personal and social spheres as spaces of belonging. DACA expanded these spaces, helping respondents derive meaning, agency, and membership in their everyday lives. However, these personal and social spheres were at times disrupted by hostile and exclusionary contests to function as spaces of vulnerability. Respondents experienced the boundaries between belonging and vulnerability as unstable and, at times, ambiguous-as they navigated a state of social liminality. Ultimately, conflicting sociopolitical climates at the national, state, local and institutional levels have created this social liminality.
AB - Heightened immigration enforcement in public spaces has brightened the boundaries of exclusion for undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet, these immigrants simultaneously experience belonging and inclusion within the personal and social spheres of their lives. This article explores this tension among young people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Drawing on interviews with 408 DACA beneficiaries in six states, our analyses underscore the significance of personal and social spheres as spaces of belonging. DACA expanded these spaces, helping respondents derive meaning, agency, and membership in their everyday lives. However, these personal and social spheres were at times disrupted by hostile and exclusionary contests to function as spaces of vulnerability. Respondents experienced the boundaries between belonging and vulnerability as unstable and, at times, ambiguous-as they navigated a state of social liminality. Ultimately, conflicting sociopolitical climates at the national, state, local and institutional levels have created this social liminality.
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U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1667506
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2019.1667506
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075349456
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 43
SP - 60
EP - 79
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 1
ER -
