Navigating Borders - Ricardo Castro-Salazar Carl Bagley Gebunden

This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book AwardIn the context of debates about U.S. immigration this book gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin - specifically involuntary immigrants born in Mexico but brought to the United States by their parents as minors. They are indistinguishable from other Americans yet in the media and their everyday lives they encounter racism discrimination ostracism and castigation on a regular basis. This book is about their stories and how against the odds they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological historical socio-econ omic institutional and educational borders in an effort to carve out a life in U.S. society. In constructing an evocative and powerful counter-narrative the authors show how they ultimately worked with artists of Mexican origin and community organizations to bring the undocumented issue to performative and political life.