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4265 - Latina/o Youth and Legal Liminality

Tue, August 14, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin Hall 1

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

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Latinos/as often occupy positions at the margins of social groups. These positions sometimes stem from immigration policies that disadvantage Latinos/as. DACA and TPS are forms of legal liminality in that they provide Latino/a immigrant youth with deferments of deportation and work permits, yet exclude them from pathways to citizenship. The recent decision to eliminate DACA confounds the consequences of liminality for youth who benefited from this deferment. What are the contours of the experience of legal liminality? This panel seeks to bring together papers that address this question, and how Latino/a youth exert agency to maintain a sense of normalcy in their lives in an ever-changing political context. We encourage papers that examine the effects of the latest decision to rescind DACA on the lives of Latino/a youth; papers that examine the socio-economic and/or social-psychological consequences of liminality, whether it is DACA or TPS; and papers that examine how Latino/a youth strive to empower themselves within a hostile immigration-receiving society

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