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Forgotten citizens : deportation, children, and the making of American exiles and orphans /
"The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law. But in today's America, the US-born children of undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Forgotten Citizens; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note on Names and Terms; Preface; 1. Keeping Silence; 2. Migrating for Life's Sake; 3. Immigration Wars; 4. The Lives of Citizen-Children; 5. Rules and Responsibility, Guilt and Shame; 6. Arrest and Detention, and the Aftermath; 7. Fighting to Preserve a Life; 8. Losing the Challenge; 9. Exiles and the Limits of Citizenship; 10. Human Loss and Becoming Deportation Orphans; 11. Our Common Future; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: Research Project: Exploring the Effects of Parental Deportation on US Citizen-Children.
- Appendix B: Cancellation of Removal Cases: Practical Information for Mental Health Clinicians (with Luis H. Zayas and Mollie Bradlee)References; About the Poet: Kane Smego; Credits; Index.