TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodriguez,Naomi Glenn-Levin
TI  - Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship 
T2  - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
SN  - 9780812294286
AV  - K639 .R637 2017eb
U1  - 341.4/8572 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - California
KW  - San Diego
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Foster home care
KW  - Children
KW  - Immigrant children
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Immigrant families
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Law
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Sociology
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. “Worthy” Migrants --; Chapter 2. Belonging and Exclusion --; Chapter 3. Working the Gap --; Chapter 4. Decisions, Decisions --; Chapter 5. Intimacies --; Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access
N2  - In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political debates. These debates, however, frequently overlook the role of the public child welfare system in the United States—the agency charged with protecting children and maintaining the integrity of families. Based on research conducted in the San Diego-Tijuana region between 2008 and 2012, Fragile Families tells the stories of children, parents, social workers, and legal actors enmeshed in the child welfare system, and sheds light on the particular challenges faced by the children of detained and deported non-U.S. citizen parents who are simultaneously caught up in the immigration system in this border region.Many families come into contact with child welfare services because of the precariousness of their lives—unsafe housing, unstable employment, and the conditions of violence, drug use, and domestic violence made visible by the heightened police presence in impoverished communities. Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez examines the character of child welfare decision-making processes and how discretionary decisions constitute the central avenue through which race, citizenship, and other cultural processes inflect child welfare practice in a manner that disproportionately impacts Latina/o families—both undocumented and U.S. citizens. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork to look at how immigration enforcement and child welfare play central roles in the ongoing production of citizenship, race, and national belonging, Fragile Families focuses on the everyday experiences of Latina/o families whose lives are shaped at the nexus of child welfare services and immigration enforcement
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294286
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294286
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