Paloma E. Villegas is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research on the intersections of migration, citizenship, borders, race, and gender can be found in publications such as Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, the Journal of Gender Studies, the Journal of Law and Society, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Refuge, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. She is also a co-editor of Seeds of Hope: Creating a Future in the Shadows (with Tanya Aberman and Francisco Villegas).

• IntroductionPart I: Immigration Trajectories1 Assembling Insecuritization in Mexico2 Transit and Encountering Borders3 Assembling Discursive and Affective Productions of "Illegality" through Visa RestrictionsPart II: Immigration Status Trajectories4 Navigating a Shifting and Exclusionary Refugee Determination System5 Yearning for Secure StatusPart III: Internal and Interlocking Borders6 Access to Health Care and Temporal Negotiations of Internal Borders7 At the Intersection of Precarious Work and Status8 Creative Practices amid Internal BordersConclusionAppendix: Participant Information at a GlanceReferences, Index

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