Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests
Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests
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移民青年、跨国家庭和国家：关怀和利益争议
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2014
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Lauren Heidbrink
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Lauren Heidbrink
每年有50多万移民儿童从地球仪各国来到美国，但没有合法的移民身份;其中许多人没有父母或法律的监护人提供照顾和监护。然而，在一个可能在庇护儿童的同时启动驱逐出境程序的国家，他们的经历鲜为人知，他们被遣返后的安全或福祉也鲜为人知。移民青年，跨国家庭，和国家审查了严厉的移民政策，拘留无人陪伴的移民儿童，并借鉴美国历史，政治，法律的，和机构的做法，使儿童和青少年的生活背景，因为他们通过联邦拘留设施，移民和家庭法院，联邦寄养计划，和他们的社区在美国和中美洲移动.通过与儿童及其家人，律师，社会工作者，政策制定者，执法部门和外交官的采访，人类学家劳伦·海德布林克突出了移民儿童和青年的声音，他们必须在美国移民政策的法律的和情感领域中航行。这些未经授权的未成年人被人道主义组织视为受害者，被执法部门视为罪犯，他们挑战了西方对儿童依赖和家庭结构的理解。海德布林克阐明了移民执法对年轻人、他们的家庭和国家的持久影响，最终质疑谁的利益推动了对移民青年的照顾和监护的决定。
Each year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody. Yet little is known about their experiences in a nation that may simultaneously shelter children while initiating proceedings to deport them, nor about their safety or well-being if repatriated. Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State examines the draconian immigration policies that detain unaccompanied migrant children and draws on U.S. historical, political, legal, and institutional practices to contextualize the lives of children and youth as they move through federal detention facilities, immigration and family courts, federal foster care programs, and their communities across the United States and Central America. Through interviews with children and their families, attorneys, social workers, policy-makers, law enforcement, and diplomats, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink foregrounds the voices of migrant children and youth who must navigate the legal and emotional terrain of U.S. immigration policy. Cast as victims by humanitarian organizations and delinquents by law enforcement, these unauthorized minors challenge Western constructions of child dependence and family structure. Heidbrink illuminates the enduring effects of immigration enforcement on its young charges, their families, and the state, ultimately questioning whose interests drive decisions about the care and custody of migrant youth.