Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s idea of nepantla alongside critical theories of race and citizenship, this article highlights how Latinx undocumented youth and youth of mixed status families navigate, resist, and at times endorse the various and competing discourses around immigration, citizenship, and illegality. The author uses pláticas as a methodological and pedagogical tool with youth who live in a migrant housing complex to examine how they enter sociopolitical conversations centered on their lived realities. Drawing on the youths’ reflections, the author emphasizes a need to centralize and create spaces for the voices of youth within discussions and action around immigration and citizenship, because they are continuously subjected to and forced to navigate dominant narratives and discourses that surface about them, their families, and (im)migrant communities.

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“从什么时候开始人们是非法的？”：内潘特拉的拉丁裔青年反思

使用 Gloria Anzaldúa 的 nepantla 思想以及种族和公民身份的批判理论，本文重点介绍了拉丁裔无证青年和混合身份家庭的青年如何驾驭、抵制和有时支持围绕移民、公民身份和非法性的各种竞争性话语。作者使用 pláticas 作为一种方法论和教学工具，与居住在移民住宅区的年轻人一起研究他们如何进入以他们生活现实为中心的社会政治对话。根据青年人的反思，作者强调需要在围绕移民和公民身份的讨论和行动中集中并为青年人的声音创造空间，因为他们不断受到并被迫在围绕他们的主流叙事和话语中导航，他们的家人，