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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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Main Authors: Heidbrink, Lauren
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Subjects:
Children of migrant laborers > Government policy > United States > 21st century.
Children of migrant laborers > Services for > United States > 21st century.
Children of migrant laborers > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Government policy > United States > 21st century.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Services for > United States > 21st century.
Migrant agricultural laborers > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Social sciences.
Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology.
Sociology.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > Government policy > United States > 21st century.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > Services for > United States > 21st century.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. > General.
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812209679
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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.

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