Migrant youth, transnational families, and the state : care and contested interests / Lauren Heidbrink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidbrink, Lauren, 1975-

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of migrant laborers--Government policy--United States--21st century.

Children of migrant laborers.

Children of migrant laborers--Services for--United States--21st century.

Children of migrant laborers--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Government policy--United States--21st century.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Services for--United States--21st century.

Migrant agricultural laborers--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Unaccompanied immigrant children--Government policy--United States--21st century.

Unaccompanied immigrant children.

Unaccompanied immigrant children--Services for--United States--21st century.

Unaccompanied immigrant children--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Social conditions.

Government policy.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Services for.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Government policy.

Children of migrant laborers--Services for.

United States.

Physical Description:

196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Children on the Move 1

Chapter 2 Criminal Alien or Humanitarian Refugee? 38

Chapter 3 Youth at the Intersection of Family and the State 63

Chapter 4 Forced to Choose 84

Chapter 5 The Shadow State 109

Chapter 6 Reformulating Kinship Ties 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 1[79]-190) and index.

ISBN:

9780812246049

0812246047

OCLC:

860943733