Borders of belonging : struggle and solidarity in mixed-status immigrant families / Heide Castañeda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castañeda, Heide, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Immigrant families.

Immigrants--Family relationships--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Immigrants.

Noncitizens--Family relationships--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Noncitizens.

Immigrants--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley--Social conditions.

Illegal immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members' access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin. Castañeda's innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S./Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.

Contents:

Introduction : illegality and the immigrant family

Belonging in the borderlands

United yet divided : mixed-status family dynamics

"Little lies" : disclosure and relationships beyond the family

Estamos encerrados : im/mobilities in the borderlands

Additional borders : education, work, and social mobility

Unequal access : health and wellbeing

Family separation : deportation, removal, and return

Fixing papers : becoming legal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503607927

1503607925

OCLC:

1178769195