Disrupting the dream: Undocumented youth reframe citizenship and deportability through anti-deportation activism

Latino Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 279-299

  Unzueta Carrasco, Tania A ^a   Seif, Hinda ^b  

^a Independent Schools   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Chicago; Deportation; Immigration; Undocumented; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903844324     PISSN: 14763435     EISSN: 14763443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2014.21     Document Type: Article

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