@article{852509,
      recid = {852509},
      author = {Vargas, Jose Antonio,},
      title = {Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen /},
      pages = {xiii, 232 pages ;},
      abstract = {"My name is Jose Antonio Vargas. I was born in the  Philippines. When I was twelve, my mother sent me to the  United States to live with her parents. While applying for  a driver's permit, I found out my papers were fake. More  than two decades later, I am still here illegally, with no  clear path to American citizenship. To some people, I am  the "most famous illegal" in America. In my mind, I am only  one of an estimated 11 million human beings whose uncertain  fate is under threat in a country I call my home. This is  not a book about the politics of immigration. This book--at  its core--is not about immigration at all. This book is  about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but about  the unsettled, unmoored psychological state in which  undocumented immigrants like me find ourselves. This book  is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about  passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about  families, keeping them together, and having to make new  ones when you can't. This book is about what it means to  not have a home"--Dust jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/852509},
}