Contested Americans : : Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times / / Cassaundra Rodriguez.

Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their lovedonesLiving in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother’s deportation hearing is postponed—ag...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Latina/o Sociology ; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Mixed-Status Families
  • 1 Parents Mitigating Family Illegality in Deportation Plans
  • 2 Negotiating Family Illegality as Young Adults
  • 3 Talking Back to “Anchor Baby” and Birthright Citizenship Discourse
  • 4 Moral Boundaries and the Right to Belong
  • 5 Navigating Racialized Belonging in Segregated Los Angeles
  • Conclusion: Uncertain Futures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author