Acknowledgments
Roberto Gonzales is an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. He received hisPh.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Some of the data in this paper werepublished in the 2007 policy report, “Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams: The Lost Potential of UndocumentedStudents,” in conjunction with the Immigration Policy Center, which benefited greatly from the assistance ofJeanne Batalova of the Migration Policy Institute. The author offers special thanks to Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education and co-director of Immigration Studiesat New York University; Josh Bernstein of the Service Employees International Union; Alfred Herrera of the Universityof California-Los Angeles; Art Coleman of EducationCounsel LLC; Maribel Solivanof the College Board;L. Sookyung Oh of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium; Katharine Gin of Educatorsfor Fair Consideration; and Jong-Min You for their assistance in the research, editing and preparation of this report.
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