Processes of Belonging for Citizen-Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants.
Processes of Belonging for Citizen-Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants.
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无证墨西哥移民的公民子女的归属过程。
DOI：
10.1007/s10826-017-0755-z
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Gulbas,LaurenE
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作者：
Zayas,LuisH;Gulbas,LaurenE
在这篇文章中，我们专注于童年中期和青春期早期的发展背景，探索与无证墨西哥父母生活在一起的公民儿童的生活。我们利用归属感的概念来强调公民儿童的独特情况以及他们如何理解自己在世界上的地位。为了捕捉无证墨西哥移民父母所生的公民儿童的经历及其对地方和社区的归属感，我们对三组83名儿童晚期和青春期早期的公民儿童进行了深入访谈。有一群公民儿童在父母被驱逐出境后生活在墨西哥。另一组在父母被拘留或驱逐出境后留在美国。第三组在驱逐程序中没有父母。对儿童访谈录音的定性分析揭示了他们发现父母无证身份的经历;政治、社会和物质排斥;以及家庭关系的破裂。孩子们敏锐地意识到，与生俱来的公民权给了他们许多父母无法享有的特权，但这并没有延伸到他们最珍视的特权：一个完整的家庭。由于被拘留或驱逐出境而失去父母，迫使一些儿童考虑他们是谁以及他们属于哪里的存在问题，有时使家庭成员相互对立。我们的研究结果表明，归属感与更广泛的法律的迫害力量密切相关，这种迫害超越了个体的非法概念，并具有深刻的、可能持久的心理影响。
In this article, we focus on the developmental contexts of middle childhood and early adolescence to explore the lives of citizen-children living with undocumented Mexican parents. We draw on the concept of belonging to highlight the distinct situation of citizen-children and the ways in which they come to understand their place in a world. To capture the experiences of citizen-children born to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents and their sense of belonging to place and community, we conducted in-depth interviews with 83 citizen-children in late childhood and early adolescence in three groups. One group of citizen-children lived in Mexico after their parents’ deportation. Another group remained in the U.S. after parents were detained or deported. The third group did not have a parent in deportation proceedings. Qualitative analyses of children’s recorded interviews revealed their experiences ofdiscoveryof parents’ undocumented status; political, social and materialexclusion; andruptureof family ties. Children were keenly aware that birthright citizenship afforded them numerous privileges unavailable to their parents, but that it did not extend to the very privilege, they valued most: an intact family. The loss of parents through detention or deportation forced some children to consider existential questions about who they were and where they belonged, sometimes pitting family members against one another. Our findings suggest that belonging is intimately tied to broader forces of legal persecution that go beyond individualized notions of illegality and have deep, possibly lasting psychological effects.