Undocumented in the U.S. South

How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts

Sophia Rodriguez (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2882-7 (ISBN)

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Undocumented in the U.S. South is a rare look into the everyday realities of undocumented youth in K-12 public schools. In an anti-immigrant policy context, youth and their families navigate historical and current legacies and realities of segregation, racial discrimination, and inequality. With a deep three-year ethnographic study, hundreds of hours of observational research, interviews, and policy analysis, Sophia Rodriguez traces the lives of undocumented youth across multiple public school settings. Her research underscores how these youth are racialized through state policies, school and organizational practices, and everyday interactions with educators and peers. As the first study of its kind to combine this unique framework for analysis, Undocumented in the U.S. South sheds light on the challenges youth face in their everyday struggle to belong. Rodriguez invites us to consider youth experiences as central knowledge for improving educators’ awareness and school practice, while promoting policies that are humanizing and rooted in youth experience.

SOPHIA RODRIGUEZ is an associate professor of educational policy studies and sociology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in New York City. She is the coauthor of Race Frames in Education: Structuring Inequality and Opportunity in a Changing Educational Landscape.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I Macro
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Interlude I, “I don’t feel welcome here.”
Chapter 3: “This state is racist with its policies toward Hispanics. We work, but don’t have
rights.”: Racialization of immigrants at macro-historical and policy levels.
Part II Meso
Chapter 4: Ethnographic Interlude II, “We call them coolers–immigration rooms are cold.”
Chapter 5: “I was born at the border, like the wrong side of it.”: Racialization and discrimination
at Denizen West High and Citizen North High.
Part III Micro
Chapter 6: “Even being a citizen is not a privilege if you’re Hispanic here...” Undocumented
youth perceptions of racialized citizenship.
Chapter 7: Conclusion and implications for education policy and practice
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in American Education
Zusatzinfo	4 color images and 5 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2882-9 / 1978828829
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2882-7 / 9781978828827
Zustand	Neuware