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Forced out and fenced in : immigration tales from the field / edited by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza.

Title: Forced out and fenced in : immigration tales from the field / edited by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria

Description

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"An anthology of essays by migration scholars telling fieldwork-based stories of those affected by U.S. immigration law enforcement"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Anecdotes
Anecdotes.

Note

"A Collection of Essays."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: Migration histories: how did we get here? Wong Foon Chuck: making home in the borderlands between China, the United States, and Mexico / Elliott Young -- Lost in translation / Mae M. Ngai -- Rebel, deportee, governor: the life of Antonio I. Villarreal / Kelly Lytle Hernandez -- Mexican migrants, family separation, and US immigration policy since 1942 / Adam Goodman.
Part 2: Families torn apart: how do deportation laws affect families? Becoming American / Lisa M. Martinez -- `Til law do us part: immigration policy and mixed-status family separation / Ruth Gomberg-Munoz -- Double jeopardy: deportation and the life-course rituals of twin sisters / Kara Cebulko.
Part 3: Living without papers: how do undocumented people navigate the challenges they face? Law doesn't care about love: intimate relationships in cities with restrictive immigration laws / Angela S. Garcia -- "It's a strange condition": being in college under a cloud of uncertainty / John S.W. Park -- "How will I get my skull back?": the embodied consequences of immigrant policing / Nolan Kline.
Part 4: Seeking refuge: what does it take to get asylum in the United States? "Is this America?": asylum-seeking in an era of humanitarian decline / Sarah M. Lakhani -- When American dreams are shattered / Tanya Golash-Boza -- Power of law: how immigration policy shapes Salvadorans' experience of family and motherhood / Maya Pagni Barak.
Part 5: Gendered exclusions: how are deportation experiences gendered? Gendered exclusion: three generations of women deported to the Dominican Republic / Yolanda C. Martin -- Caging paloma: illegality and violence along the United States-Mexico border / Heidy Sarabia -- Ripple effects of US immigration enforcement: a young Mexican deportee's story of isolation, precarity, and resilience / Christine Wheatley.
Part 6: Deporting dreamers: How do "American" youth navigate their lives in Mexico after deportation? I used to believe in justice / Juan Carlos Guevara, Angela Stuesse, Mathew Coleman -- No place like home: from high school graduation to deportation / Alexis M. Silver -- Call centers, transnational mobility, and (neoliberal) citizenship / Jill Anderson.
Part 7: Returning "home": What happens to migrants who return to the United States after being deported? No hay otro: an Ecuadorian tale of repeated US immigration / Nancy Hiemstra -- Barred por vida: Maria Inez's battle to find health and well-being / San Juanita Garcia -- Sergio Rodriguez's dream deferred: illegality, deportation, and the long-term impacts of lives in limbo / Roberto G. Gonzales.

ISBN

019063345X
9780190633455

LCCN

2017007205
40027406621

OCLC

980525494
SCSB-11376157

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Harvard Library