"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will l…
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with "green cards," have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation wit…
"Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with 'green cards, ' have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation w…
"The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without natio…
"The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without natio…
"The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals--approximately 100,000 people. With their origins in the tribes of the northern Arabian deserts (spanning today's Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Levant), they are, for most outsiders, indistinguishabl…
"The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals--approximately 100,000 people. With their origins in the tribes of the northern Arabian deserts (spanning today's Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Levant), they are, for most outsiders, indistinguishabl…
1. Introduction: "this is the most important day of my life!"--2. "We asked for workers, but human beings came" : history and economic argument for the DREAM act -- 3. Flying under the radar : the racialization of immigration and the DREAMers -- 4. Living in limbo : neither here…
Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Reyna Grande -- Introduction: "this is the most important day of my life!"--"We asked for workers, but human beings came" : history and economic argument for the dream act -- Flying under the radar : the racialization of immigration and the dream…
In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified undocumented youth with his policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals forever changing the lives of the approximately five million DREAMers currently in the United States. Formerly illegal, a generation of Lat…
