Ways of Belonging

Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality

Francesca Meloni

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English

Rutgers University Press
31 October 2023

Social & cultural history; Society & culture: general; Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies; Hispanic & Latino studies

Ways of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K-12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn't mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people's struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode.

By: Francesca Meloni
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 41g
ISBN: 9781978835498
ISBN 10: 1978835493
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

FRANCESCA MELONI is an assistant professor in social justice at King’s College London.

Reviews for Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality

"""Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization'. By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multi-dimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing.""--Jacqueline Bhabha ""author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age"" ""Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policy makers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience.""--Carola Suárez-Orozco ""author of Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth: New Directions for Youth Development, """