Through iceboxes and kennels : how immigration detention harms children and families / Luis H. Zayas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zayas, Luis H., (author).

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--Government policy--United States.

Immigrant families.

Noncitizen children--Government policy--United States.

Noncitizen children.

Noncitizen detention centers--United States--History.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Detention of persons--United States.

Detention of persons.

Unaccompanied refugee children--Care--United States.

Unaccompanied refugee children.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This book traces the rise of family migration from Central America in 2014, a phenomenon that led to the incarceration—and, in many cases, the separation—of thousands of children and parents. Part I, “The State of Affairs,” presents several critical issues, such as separating families, licensing of detention facilities as child care centers, and detaining teenagers in psychiatric treatment centers without cause, and describes principled and honest employees who defied the inhumanity of incarcerating mothers and children. In Part II, “The Human Costs,” the author draws on sources as varied as history, politics, and the behavioral and social sciences to describe four stages in family migration in search of US asylum and the plight of children—the pre-migration forces pushing families to flee their countries; mid-migration journeys fraught with hunger, violence, and pain; detention in cold rooms, cages, and jails; and the post-detention settlement and adjustment to a new life. Each stage has a rising slope of tension and a trigger or threshold event that results in passage to the next state. Illustrated with profiles of families he met, Zayas shows how stresses and traumas disrupt children’s development and mental health, sometimes permanently. Through Iceboxes and Kennels presents the stories—sometimes harrowing, always riveting—told by children and parents in their own words, revealing their thoughts and emotions and presented with sensitivity and understanding. The book is both alarming and optimistic." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Part I. The state of affairs / Luis H. Zayas. The poet, heroic mothers, and cash cows ; Ordeals and histories of immigration ; I didn't sign up for this ; Detention as licensed child care

Texas-style ; Take the children. Age doesn't matter ; Hiding boys in the theraputic detention

Part II. The human costs / Luis H. Zayas. Studying families, hearing their stories ; Stages of Central American immigration ; Stress, trauma, and children's development ; I need to tell my story, too ; Sleepless under the bridge in El Paso ; A mother's doubt, a child's hunger* ; Sufri, sufrimiento, and hallucinating hte invisible killer girl ; Four generations of mothers and daughters ; All that comes after.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Zayas, Luis H. Through Iceboxes and Kennels

ISBN:

0197668194

0197668178

0197668186

9780197668191

9780197668177

9780197668184

9780197668160

019766816X

OCLC:

1348870540