Borders of belonging : struggle and solidarity in mixed-status immigrant families /
Heide Castaņeda.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : illegality and the immigrant family -- Belonging in the borderlands -- United yet divided : mixed-status family dynamics -- "Little lies" : disclosure and relationships beyond the family -- Estamos encerrados : im/mobilities in the borderlands -- Additional borders : education, work, and social mobility -- Unequal access : health and wellbeing -- Family separation : deportation, removal, and return -- Fixing papers : becoming legal.
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America--the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castaņeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members' access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin. Castaņeda's innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S./Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.
9781503607927
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