Lives in limbo: undocumented and coming of age in America

Contested membership over time

Undocumented young adults in Los Angeles : the college goers and early exiters

Childhood : inclusion and belonging

School as a site of belonging and conflict

Adolescence : beginning transitions to illegality

Early exiters : learning to live on the margins

College-goers : managing the distance between aspirations and reality

Adulthood : how immigration status becomes a master status

Conclusion : managing lives in limbo.