"What Canizales illustrates through her fieldwork is the gauntlet of everyday difficulties faced by undocumented youth, first and foremost their precarious status, which complicates their search for work, stable housing and safe navigation of the city. Gender is a factor in this context. Cultural expectations are different for males and females, and Canizales deserves credit for examining the unique obstacles faced by female migrants." * California Review of Books * "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, which translates into English as 'without parents, nor papers,' is an excellent source book for social workers, political scientists, and socially conscious activists." * New York Journal of Books * "For far too many others in our increasingly xenophobic society, these undocumented adolescents and young adults are merely illegal aliens who dont belong here and should be deportedpeople who are undeserving of public services, personal empathy, and human dignity. But Stephanie Canizales, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has handed the microphone over to these young immigrants, and in so doing produced one of the most exciting and meticulous qualitative research projects Ive read in many years." * The Progressive *
