ISBN: 9780190211127 - forgotten citizens: deportation, children, and the making of american exiles and orphans (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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 they belong. Children in mixed-status families are forgotten in the loud and discordant immigration debate. They live under the constant threat that their parents will suddenly be deported. Their parents face impossible decisions: make their children exiles or make them orphans. In Forgotten Citizens, Luis Zayas holds a mirror to a nation in crisis, providing invaluable perspectives for anyone brave enough to look. Zayas draws on his extensive work as a mental health clinician and researcher to present the most complete picture yet of how immigration policy subverts children's rights, harms their mental health, and leaves lasting psychological trauma. We meet Virginia, a kindergartener so terrified of revealing her family's status that she took her father's warning don't say anything so literally she hadn't spoken in school in over a year. We hear from Brandon, exiled with his family to Mexico, who worries that his father will die in the desert trying to immigrate again. Children like Virginia and Brandon have been silenced and their stories largely overlooked in the broader debates about immigration policy. As this book demonstrates, we can no longer afford to ignore them.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. First edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo. 272 pages. Zayas, Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, draws on his clinical and research experience to examine the psychological impact of deportation on U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants. The book presents case studies and policy analysis, highlighting the emotional toll and legal challenges faced by these "forgotten citizens." Honorable mention for the 2016 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award and first runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Award. …

Zustand: New. In Forgotten Citizens, Luis Zayas draws on his extensive research and experience as a psychological evaluator to present the most complete picture yet of the mental health and lasting trauma experienced by US citizen-children who are threatened with their fate of becoming an exile or an orphan. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554. . 2015. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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