Re-immigration after deportation : family, gender, and the decision to make a second attempt to enter the U.S. / Paola Molina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molina, Paola, 1981-

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The New Americans : recent immigration and American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deportees--Mexico.

Deportees.

Deportees--United States.

Immigrant families--Mexico.

Immigrant families.

Immigrant families--United States.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Mexico.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages)

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Molina follows the journey of 70 deported migrant women and men as they consider further migration while staying in a migrant shelter located at the U.S.-Mexico border. She shows the complex ways in which gender and family shape further migration intentions. One unexpected development was the large presence of permanent U.S. settlers in the sample. Of the 70 respondents, 29 were residing in the U.S. when they were apprehended. Desperate for family reunification, the majority of these respondents intended to cross again, despite dangerous crossings of the Arizona-Sonora desert, multiple apprehensions, and mistreatment by U.S. authorities.

Contents:

Gender and family effects in migration after deportation

U.S. immigration policy in the 21st century

Qualitative interviewing at a migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora

Gendered crossings of the Arizona-Sonora border in a time of growing criminalization

"Crime" and punishment : the treatment of unauthorized migrants in short- and long-term immigration detention

Re-migration intentions : how gender and the family shape further migration after deportation

The mixed-status family in an age of surveillance

Towards a more humane U.S. immigration policy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781593327361

1593327366

OCLC:

862103673