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Silver’s previous work on young adult Latinos dealing transitioning from secondary education into the job market and college is expanded by a deep ethnographic engagement with the impact of education and immigration policies on youth in this small, rural context. Adding to the work on immigrant incorporation Silver carefully centers affect in her critique of uniform assimilation, showing the diverse responses and strategies deployed by 1.5- and second-generation immigrant youth. However, Silver does not provide an analysis of the impact of gender within this matrix of “tectonic incorporation,” but the model provided facilitates an analysis of gender. Silver’s analytical attention to the role of place and the incorporation of a variety of methodological approaches makes this a highly useful text for a range of disciplinary interests, including but not limited to immigration, identity, transnationalism, and legal studies.

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