Forgotten citizens : deportation, children, and the making of American exiles and orphans /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zayas, Luis H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Noncitizens > United States.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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