Enduring Illegality

Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-39748-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Enduring Illegality chronicles the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants who have spent decades in the United States waiting for a path to legalization that has yet to arrive. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García, Angela S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Waiting Through the Politics of Immigration1. Deferring Action: The Waiting State as Immigration Governance2. Growing Older on the Job: Illegality and the Work of Midlife3. Caring Here and Caring There: The Undocumented Sandwich Generation4. Dying Undocumented: Aging, Health, and End-of-Life Horizons5. Relating to the State: The Felt Politics of Immigrant IllegalityConclusion: Redressing the Waiting StateNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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.