{"id":5063159,"date":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calatinonews.com\/?p=5063159"},"modified":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","slug":"authors-debut-book-sin-padres-ni-papeles-captures-untold-stories-of-unaccompanied-migrant-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/caln\/2024\/10\/28\/authors-debut-book-sin-padres-ni-papeles-captures-untold-stories-of-unaccompanied-migrant-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut Book ‘Sin Padres, Ni Papeles\u2019 Captures Untold Stories of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For six years, Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales listened to the coming-of-age stories of unaccompanied migrant youth inside of Los Angeles\u2019 church courtyards, community gardens, English night classes, McDonald\u2019s restaurant booths and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStory after story\u2026 as much as there was pain and suffering, there was resilience and hope,\u201d Canizales said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first book, \u2018Sin Padres, Ni Papeles<\/a>\u2019 compassionately weaves the voices of Central American and Mexican immigrant youth who struggled to adjust to life in the United States after migrating without parents nor papers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s both a story about inclusion but also deep marginalization,\u201d Canizales said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 129,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the U.S. Southern border in 2022, according to The Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>. Though it became widely reported in 2014, when a surge in immigration exposed the public to photos of detained children in cages<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canizales\u2019s research began in 2012, when the Barack Obama administration passed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)<\/a>, which allowed some immigrant youth temporary relief from deportation and renewable legal work authorization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though DACA had positive impacts on some, it left out 62 percent of the undocumented youth who did not meet the policy\u2019s educational requirements, Canizales wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those left out were the youth that she met in L.A., many of which because they did not travel with a legal guardian or documents, took on the role of low-wage worker instead of student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales, is a researcher, author, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: <\/strong>Provided by Nanda Dyssou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The book cover of “Sin Padres, Ni Papeles<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: <\/strong>University of California Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canizales gently probes at the hearts of youth like Tom\u00e1s, a garment worker who left Guatemala at 14-years-old a few years after his mother abandoned him and his older sister Susana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susana was the first to leave Guatemala and initially welcomed her younger brother to her Pico-Union home where her undocumented husband and U.S. born children had settled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Susana soon kicked Tom\u00e1s out because she was afraid he would place her family at higher risk of deportation, leaving the young boy emotionally callused with no one to turn to for support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTom\u00e1s\u2019s only social connection was to his employer, who allowed him to sleep in the factory until he found a room to rent in an apartment with other young garment workers,\u201d Canizales wrote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many unaccompanied youth like Tom\u00e1s struggled to find community which led some down the path of what Canizales described as perdici\u00f3n <\/em>or perdition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is when youth fall into drugs, get into unhealthy relationships, commit self-harm and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese things are not failings on young people\u2019s part \u2026 or immigrants are not inherently destined to do these things,\u201d Canizales stressed. \u201cWhat I really try to highlight is that anyone without meaningful social ties would fall into these circumstances as a way of coping with the loneliness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite experiencing hardships, youth would often portray on social media that they are \u201cdoing better\u201d in the U.S. than they actually were which \u201cperpetuates the idea of the American Dream,\u201d Canizales said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is an attempt to save face with the families and communities they\u2019ve left behind,\u201d Canizales said. \u201cThey send the best stories of success at work, they send as much as they can in financial remittances and don\u2019t tell families that they are left with five dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, when youth do form close relationships, they are more likely to experience adaptaci\u00f3n<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are cases where young people can become materially adapted to what it means to be a worker, or how to use public transit or where to go for groceries,\u201d Canizales said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, Canizales said that while writing the book she wanted to \u201ccritique the top-down markers of success that we\u2019ve imposed, not just [on] immigrant groups, but [on] society at large.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frequently the \u201csuccess\u201d of \u201ca good immigrant\u201d is measured by socioeconomic markers, such as if they earn a college degree or start a business, Canizales said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are looking at a group of kids who are completely dislocated from childhood, from parent-led households, from K-12 schools, from the U.S. legal system, for indigenous youth, from the Latino category but also just in a society that is both anti-black and anti-indigenous, and anti-immigrant,\u201d Canizales said. \u201cAll of these compounded, there was never a chance in heaven on earth or in hell that these young people would be able to accomplish those things because they are just so far from the normative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead Canizales said she ended all of her interviews by asking the youth what success meant to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYoung people said, \u2018Success to me is I can sow faster, I learned some skills, I speak a little bit better English, I went from being a dishwasher to a busser, to a server,\u2019 Canizales said. \u201cIn that same vein, it was always measuring their emotional selves by those metrics. \u2018I was abused in my home country, I was really depressed when I got here, me sentia disorientado<\/em> and now look at me, I don\u2019t feel as depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canizales said she was continuously \u201cshocked\u201d while hearing the stories of youth throughout her 6 six years of research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m listening to people talk about, now a decades-long experience that they were not anticipating, that has been very painful for them,\u201d Canizales said. \u201cBut they still hope that tomorrow will be better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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