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"""Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization'. By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multi-dimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing.""--Jacqueline Bhabha ""author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age"" ""Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policy makers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience.""--Carola Suárez-Orozco ""author of Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth: New Directions for Youth Development, """

""Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience.""— Carola Suárez-Orozco, co-editor of Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants ""Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing.""— Jacqueline Bhabha, author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age ""Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike.""  — Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

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FRANCESCA MELONI is an assistant professor in social justice at King’s College London. 

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