Borders of belonging : struggle and solidarity in mixed-status immigrant families /

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Author / Creator:Castañeda, Heide, author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12352451
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ISBN:9781503607927
1503607925
9781503607217
1503607216
9781503607910
1503607917
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 Castañeda 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. Castañeda'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.
Other form:Print version: Castañeda, Heide. Borders of belonging. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503607217
Standard no.:40029088765