The stories of unaccompanied & undocumented queer migrant youth are finally being told
The following is an excerpt from Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States by Dr.
Stephanie L. Canizales, available now from University of California Press.Sin Padres, Ni Papeles (Without Parents, Nor Papers) tells the coming-of-age stories of Central American and Mexican immigrant youth who migrated to the United States and arrived in Los Angeles, California, clandestinely, without parents nor papers.
I began my research with unaccompanied and undocumented migrant youth in 2012, just as communities across the US were settling into the Obama administration’s passage of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order.
Colloquially known as DACA, this executive order granted a stay on deportation and work authorization renewable in two-year increments to a select group of undocumented migrant young people who arrived as children and grew up as students.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.While DACA had a significant positive impact on eligible groups’ political, economic, and social mobility, some criticized its limited scope, including that it left out 62 percent of the undocumented youth and young adults who did not meet the policy’s educational requirements.
