The Distress of Citizen-Children with Detained and Deported Parents.
The Distress of Citizen-Children with Detained and Deported Parents.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10826-015-0124-8
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Rey GN
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作者：
Zayas LH;Aguilar-Gaxiola S;Yoon H;Rey GN
在移民执法中，许多带着孩子的无证移民经常被拘留和驱逐出境。但在移民辩论以及执法政策和实践中，他们在美国出生的公民子女却被忽视了。当家庭因逮捕、拘留和驱逐出境而破裂和不稳定时，公民儿童面临着负面心理后果的风险。孩子们面临着与父母分离的风险，而且常常是与无证兄弟姐妹分离的风险。为了补充关于生活在驱逐出境威胁下和实际驱逐父母的影响的经验基础，我们比较了三组公民儿童的心理状态：（1）与被驱逐的父母一起生活在墨西哥的一组； (2) 父母受到拘留或驱逐出境影响的美国团体； (3) 对照组是公民儿童，其无证父母没有受到拘留或驱逐出境的影响。我们比较了儿童的自我报告和家长报告的行为调整、抑郁、焦虑和自我概念的测量结果。在这三个群体中，我们发现经历过父母拘留或驱逐出境的儿童与没有经历过父母拘留或驱逐出境的儿童之间的痛苦程度较高，并且存在差异。我们在儿童临床需求、未来研究以及对移民执法政策和实践的影响的背景下讨论研究结果。
In immigration enforcement, many undocumented immigrants with children are often detained and deported. But it is their US-born citizen-children that have been overlooked in immigration debates and enforcement policies and practices. Citizen-children are at risk for negative psychological outcomes when families are fractured and destabilized by arrest, detention, and deportation. The children risk being torn from their parents and, often, their undocumented siblings. To add to the small but growing empirical base on the effects of living under the threat of deportation and actual deportation of parents, we compared the psychological status of three groups of citizen-children: (1) a group living in Mexico with their deported parents; (2) a group in the US with parents affected by detention or deportation; and (3) a comparison group of citizen-children whose undocumented parents were not affected by detention or deportation. We compared children on self-report and parent-report measures of behavioral adjustment, depression, anxiety, and self-concept. Across the three groups we found elevated levels of distress, and differences between children who had experienced a parent's detention or deportation and those who had not. We discuss findings in the context of children's clinical needs, future research, and implications for immigration enforcement policy and practices.