LSJ 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Centrality, Human Capital, Deferred Action
5 Apr 2016
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Legal status and illegality shapes legal consciousness: affects their interpretation of the law, and affects their claims-making behavior, being american --> becoming undocumented migrants. Socio-legal scholarship: a focus on internalization of the law, assessment of the legal system. Master status dominates over all perceptions (race, gender, sexuality: gives rise to stereotypes to groups linked to such characteristics. Abrego: legal status + illegality = master status. Abrego: consider the diversity within the population of undocumented persons that we typically treated as one whole community: consider the complexity of undocumented persons. United we dream - the dream is now (https://youtu. be/w6slu7lhglc: community advocacy organization primarily focused on experiences of undocumented youth. ~2-3 million estimate children born outside of the us reside here without legal permission/residency status from federal government: 58% is of mexican national origin. Under 18 years old living in the us. % of undocumented hs grads who go on to college. % of undocumented students who live in poverty.
