Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: lessons from undocumented mothers seeking benefits for citizen children
Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: lessons from undocumented mothers seeking benefits for citizen children
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亲密依恋和移民可驱逐性:无证母亲为公民儿童寻求福利的经验教训
DOI:
10.1080/01419870.2017.1286025
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
S. Stevens
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作者:
Eithne Luibhéid;Rosi A Andrade;S. Stevens
ABSTRACT Nicholas De Genova (2002) suggests that undocumented status is primarily experienced through consciousness of being deportable. Interviews with undocumented Mexican migrant women living in Arizona show that they experience deportability not just in workplaces, which have been the focus of much scholarship, but also when seeking healthcare benefits for their U.S. citizen children. This article therefore expands the scholarship on deportability by exploring how state strategies for constituting migrants as deportable work through, and reconfigure, intimate ties, in this case, ties to children. Furthermore, it shows that migrant mothers draw on diverse intimate ties, beyond those that are recognized by the state, to manage the impact of their deportability. The article concludes by calling for expanded scholarly engagement with the complex relationship between state regulation, intimate ties, migrant lives, and political possibilities.