Migrant youth, transnational families, and the state : care and contested interests /
In this ground-breaking ethnography, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink deconstructs the "problem" of migrant children, examining the historical, political, and institutional roots of contemporary immigration policies and the experiences of the migrant children who navigate this legal and emo...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812209679 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812209679.jpg |
Summary: |
In this ground-breaking ethnography, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink deconstructs the "problem" of migrant children, examining the historical, political, and institutional roots of contemporary immigration policies and the experiences of the migrant children who navigate this legal and emotional terrain. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | 4 illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812209679 |
Index Number: | HD5856 |
CLC: | D771.238 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1. Children on the Move -- CHAPTER 2. Criminal Alien or Humanitarian Refugee? -- CHAPTER 3. Youth at the Intersection of Family and the State -- CHAPTER 4. Forced to Choose -- CHAPTER 5. The Shadow State -- CHAPTER 6. Reformulating Kinship Ties -- Conclusion -- Acronyms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |