Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State : : Care and Contested Interests / / Lauren Heidbrink.
Each year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody. Yet little is known about their experiences in a nation that may simu...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 4 illus. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of 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