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Dreamers by Eileen Truax
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Mar 10, 2015 | ISBN 9780807030332

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Praise

“Compelling, honest, and personal, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate.”
Booklist

A forthright, moving piece of advocacy journalism.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Truax succeeds in conveying how a shadow status permeates the lives of all the young people profiled here, with education, employment opportunities, and essential social services severely limited or unavailable.”
Publishers Weekly

“Truax’s informative, engaging read provides a new perspective on this country’s ongoing immigration debate.”
Library Journal

“Eileen Truax offers a gripping, close-up account of the lives of Dreamers—those young undocumented people who President Obama argued are American ‘in every single way but one: on paper.’ Through in-depth interviews and participation in their organizations and events, Truax captures the Dreamers’ passions and hopes, as well as the heartbreaking challenges that our country’s policies impose on them. She also paints a convincing portrait of the painstaking work and heady successes of one of the country’s most important movements for social change in the twenty-first century.”
—Aviva Chomsky, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION
We Are All Dreamers

CHAPTER ONE
A Student in Need

CHAPTER TWO
Undocumented and Unafraid: Out of the Shadows

CHAPTER THREE
Dream Seller

CHAPTER FOUR
Back to a Strange World

CHAPTER FIVE
California Dreaming

CHAPTER SIX
Dreaming in Arizona

CHAPTER SEVEN
Dying for a Dream

CHAPTER EIGHT
Deferred Action: A Temporary Reprieve

CHAPTER NINE
Undocuqueers: Coming Out, Twice

CHAPTER TEN
#BringThemHome

EPILOGUE
The Fight for Their Dreams

APPENDIX
The DREAM Act

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SOURCES

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