Dacamented in the age of deportation

Navigating Spaces of Belonging and Vulnerability in Social and Personal Lives

Bibliographic Data

ID2148182
AuthorsRoberto G Gonzales (0009-0001-7602-1161, Harvard University, corresponding author), Kristina Brant (0000-0001-8334-5589, Harvard University), Benjamin J Roth (0000-0002-1549-4440, University of South Carolina), Benjamin Roth (0000-0003-0362-0267)
Year2020
Volume43
Issue1
Pages60-79
Publication date2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1667506
OpenAlexW2991191691
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited45

Heightened immigration enforcement in public spaces has brightened the boundaries of exclusion for undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet, these immigrants simultaneously experience belonging and inclusion within the personal and social spheres of their lives. This article explores this tension among young people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Drawing on interviews with 408 DACA beneficiaries in six states, our analyses underscore the significance of personal and social spheres as spaces of belonging. DACA expanded these spaces, helping respondents derive meaning, agency, and membership in their everyday lives. However, these personal and social spheres were at times disrupted by hostile and exclusionary contests to function as spaces of vulnerability. Respondents experienced the boundaries between belonging and vulnerability as unstable and, at times, ambiguous-as they navigated a state of social liminality. Ultimately, conflicting sociopolitical climates at the national, state, local and institutional levels have created this social liminality

Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Liminality · Meaning (existential · Political science · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology

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