Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans. By L. H. Zayas

Batista-Morales, Nathaly

doi:10.1093/migration/mnx063

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“…Whether these patterns reflect selectivity in who returns via deportation, versus for other reasons, is not clear from our data. Our findings are consistent with those reported by qualitative studies of families who return to Mexico following a deportation (Barros Nock 2019; Boehm 2016; Caldwell 2019; Dreby 2015a; Zayas 2015). Future research on U.S.‐born children in Mexico should consider parents’ reason for return as an important dimension of stratification in the life circumstances of migrant children.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Only a few studies have specifically examined the experiences of U.S.‐born children whose parents the U.S. government deported to Mexico (Barros Nock 2019; Boehm 2016; Caldwell 2019; Dreby 2015a; Zayas 2015). These five qualitative studies followed families deported to Mexico.…”

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“…Many immigrants the U.S. government deports have children in the United States (Amuedo-Dorantes, Pozo, and Puttitanun 2015; Hagan et al 2008). When the U.S. government deports the parent of a child living in the United States, there are three possibilities for family reorganization: (1) the child remains in the United States, and the parent remains in the country of origin, causing family separation (Amuedo-Dorantes and Arenas-Arroyo 2019; Andrews and Khayar-Cámara 2020; Golash-Boza 2019); (2) the parent re-enters the United States, subjecting themselves to possible criminal penalties, a nevertheless common strategy (Amuedo-Dorantes, Pozo, and Puttitanun 2015; Cardoso et al 2016;Vargas Valle, Hamilton, and Orraca Romano 2022); or (3) the child immigrates to the parent's country of origin to accompany the deported parent (Boehm 2016;Caldwell 2019;Zayas 2015). It is unknown how many families separate, versus reunite, and where they reunite when facing the deportation of a parent (Capps et al 2015).…”

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U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico

Hamilton¹,

Masferrer²,

Langer³

2022

Population & Development Rev

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Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probability sample of households in Mexico collected in 2014 and 2018. About one in six U.S.‐born children living in Mexico in 2014/2018, amounting to an estimated 80,000–100,000 U.S.‐born children, were there because the U.S. government deported one or both of their parents. De facto deported U.S.‐born children are socioeconomically disadvantaged in Mexico compared to U.S.‐born children whose parents migrate to Mexico for other reasons. Women are overrepresented among deported people who bring their U.S.‐born children to Mexico, and when deported mothers bring their children, they are far less likely to do so with a partner than are deported fathers. U.S. policy should consider the interests of U.S. citizen children forced to live abroad when redesigning immigration and child welfare policies.

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U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico

Hamilton¹,

Masferrer²,

Langer³

2022

Population & Development Rev

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“…Studies examining the consequences of parental illegality and deportability on children have focused on young children's cognitive developmental, emotional, and educational experiences resulting from the detention and deportation of a parent (Dreby, 2012; Yoshikawa, 2011; Zayas, 2015, Gulbas et al, 2016; Enriquez, 2015; and Patler & Gonzalez, 2021). More recent work has begun to examine how adult US citizens manage parental illegality in their own lives (e.g., Rodriguez, 2019; Castañeda, 2019; García Valdivia, 2022).…”

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Undocumented consciousness: Citizenship and illegality in the lives of US citizen youth

González

2023

Law & Policy

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This paper examines the impact of immigration law on US citizens' understanding of legal status categories. Prior research on legal consciousness has uncovered the ways in which undocumented persons make sense of and navigate their legal position in society. Less is known, however, about the paradox of US citizen children who are legally protected by their citizenship yet grow up in the context of their parents' precarious immigration statuses. Drawing on interviews with US citizen youth and undocumented parents, I conceptualize the phenomenon of undocumented consciousness to explain how US citizens make sense of parental legal status vulnerability. By witnessing their parents' blocked opportunities from work, travel, and other aspects of life, youth begin to attach meaning to citizenship and its protections, all the while forming an understanding of what it means, practically, to live in the United States with and without legal status. Findings reveal the mechanisms by which it is possible for functions of immigration law to have adverse impacts on the lives of US citizens themselves. I was very young, maybe eight or nine years old when I figured out that my parents weren't legal citizens. I think I asked my mom if we could travel, and she said we weren't able to because my parents don't have papers so they can't really board a plane and if they do board they can't come back into the U.S. At the time I just wanted to visit my grandparents who live in Mexico. My mom didn't really go into detail she just said we weren't able to come back if she left and honestly, I didn't understand it. It wasn't until I was older that I came to understand what she meant.-Mateo (26),

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“…immigration enforcement activities, such as deportations and raids, affect a variety of populations. This includes children like Leilani (Dreby et al, 2022; Rabin & Menjívar, 2019; Zayas, 2015), deportees who are primarily Latino men (Brotherton & Barrios, 2011; Golash‐Boza & Hondagneu‐Sotelo, 2013), their partners and spouses who are primarily women (Dreby, 2015; Lopez et al, 2018), and communities navigating the increase in criminalization (Hagan et al, 2010; Lopez, 2019). Fears related to legal status, what De Genova (2002) terms “deportability,” can be devastating for those living with an insecure status, and for legal migrants and citizens in mixed‐status families (Abrego, 2011; Aranda et al, 2014; Castañeda, 2019; Gonzales et al, 2019; Menjívar, 2006).…”

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The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

Dreby

Macias

2023

Law Soc Rev

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For 30 years, U.S. immigration policy has increasingly focused on enforcement. This article goes beyond cataloging the harms of such policies to document the processes by which they become more or less salient in the lives of children of immigrants over time. In‐depth interviews with 86 young adults raised in New York show that enforcement policies shape children's lives either through lived experiences of enforcement episodes or through diffuse fears arising from indirect threats. Qualitative analysis of narratives of (a) deportations post‐incarceration, (b) removals, (c) arrests and detentions (d) direct threats, and (e) diffuse fears identifies characteristics related to each that may affect children even after they age into adulthood.

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Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans. By L. H. Zayas

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico

U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico

Undocumented consciousness: Citizenship and illegality in the lives of US citizen youth

The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

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