Enduring Illegality

Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life

Angela S. García (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39748-4 (ISBN)

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Enduring Illegality chronicles the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants who have spent decades in the United States waiting for a path to legalization that never arrives. Based on longitudinal fieldwork, this book traces how people who migrated as young adults have transitioned into middle age still undocumented, caught in a state of legal and temporal suspension. Focusing on parents who would have qualified for the failed Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program, Angela S. García argues that illegality is not only a legal condition but a temporal one, produced and reproduced through decades of waiting for reform. Even in the face of such exclusion, migrants sustain lives, labor, and care across borders. Enduring Illegality offers a critical account of how the state uses time as a mechanism of immigration control, structuring lives and inequality in ways that outlast any single policy or presidential administration.

Angela S. García is Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago and author of Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2026
Zusatzinfo	3 b-w figures and 13 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39748-7 / 0520397487
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39748-4 / 9780520397484
Zustand	Neuware