12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340 (The Reading Room)

A talk by Roberto Gonzalez, Harvard University

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
"Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, Harvard Sociologist Roberto G. Gonzales sheds light on the disastrous effects immigration policies have had on more than two million children coming of age in the United States. He shows that highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers despite the fact that education is touted as the path to integration and success for immigrants in America. This work questions the function of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor."