Research Catalog

Title

Forgotten citizens : deportation, children, and the making of american exiles and orphans / Luis H. Zayas.

Author

Zayas, Luis H.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xvi, 272 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "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"--
• "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 the fate of exile or orphan"--

Subjects

• Illegal aliens > United States
• PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent
• Illegal alien children > Government policy > United States
• PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
• Children of illegal aliens > Law and legislation > United States
• Children of illegal aliens > United States
• United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter One Keeping Silent -- Chapter Two Migrating for Life's Sake -- Chapter Three Immigration Wars -- Chapter Four The Lives of Citizen-Children -- Chapter Five Rules and Responsibility, Guilt and Shame -- Chapter Six Arrest and Detention, and the Aftermath -- Chapter Seven Fighting to Preserve a Life -- Chapter Eight Losing the Challenge -- Chapter Nine Exiles and the Limits of Citizenship -- Chapter Ten Human Loss and Becoming Deportation Orphans -- Chapter Eleven Our Common Future -- Appendix A Research Project: Exploring the Effects of Parental Deportation on U.S. Citizen Children -- Appendix B Cancellation of Removal Cases: Practical Information for Mental Health Clinicians (with Mollie Bradlee).

Call Number

JFE 17-6669

ISBN

• 9780190211127
• 0190211121

LCCN

2015010485

OCLC

2015010485

Author

Zayas, Luis H.

Title

Forgotten citizens : deportation, children, and the making of american exiles and orphans / Luis H. Zayas.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6669