Mixed-Status Families and Citizenship in the Contemporary Migration Experience

美国有230万个混血家庭，其中一些成员的法律地位不确定，影响了包括永久居民和美国公民在内的所有人的机会和资源。美国法律和政策对个人的关注在很大程度上忽视了对家庭的累积连锁反应，尽管个人总是嵌入这些复杂的社会单位中。本研究考察了混血家庭如何经历与保健和教育有关的具体政策，并试图了解他们如何共同应对机遇和障碍。有必要了解这些家庭的经历，特别是对大约450万美国公民儿童的影响，以确保政策的公平适用并减少差距。该项目以混合身份家庭为主要分析单位，推动了关于法律类别如何在家庭领域以及与卫生保健和教育等公共机构的关系中塑造社会化身份的研究。本民族志研究考察了家庭如何积极协商机构采用纵向，三年的设计。来自40个混合身份家庭多个成员的数据将在两个时间点上进行检查。这将通过参与观察和对50名服务提供者和社区专家的访谈来具体化。本研究试图通过将焦点从个人转移到家庭来改变移民和法律理论，更好地揭示社会影响以及家庭层面的差异是如何形成的。将微观家庭的经验与政策层面的经验衔接起来，将有助于理解当代移民经验和法律社会科学中的理论问题。

There are 2.3 million mixed-status families in the US, in which the uncertain legal status of some members influences opportunities and resources for all, including permanent residents and US citizens. A focus on individuals in US law and policy largely overlooks cumulative ripple effects on families, although individuals are always embedded within these complex social units. This study examines how mixed-status families experience specific policies related to health care and education, and seeks to understand how they collectively navigate opportunities and obstacles. It is necessary to understand the experiences of these families -- including and especially the impacts on some 4.5 million US citizen children -- in order to ensure equitable application of policy and to reduce disparities. Using mixed-status families as a primary unit of analysis, this project advances scholarship on how juridical categories shape socialization to identities within the domestic sphere as well as in relation to public institutions such as health care and education. This ethnographic study examines how families actively negotiate institutions by employing a longitudinal, three-year design. Data from multiple members of 40 mixed-status families will be examined across two points in time. This will be contextualized through participant observation and interviews with 50 service providers and community experts. This study seeks to transform theories of migration and law by shifting the focus from individuals to families, better revealing social impacts and how difference are shaped at the family level. Bridging experiences at the micro-familial with those at the policy level will result in advances for understanding the contemporary migration experience and theoretical concerns in the social science of law.