Contested Americans: Mixed-status Families in Anti-immigrant Times - Couverture souple

Rodriguez, Cassaundra

 
9781479800544: Contested Americans: Mixed-status Families in Anti-immigrant Times

Synopsis

Honorable Mention, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, given by the Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

2023 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist

Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved
ones

Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother's deportation hearing is postponed--again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families--those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In Contested Americans, Cassaundra Rodriguez explores how members of mixed-status families experience and articulate belonging in the United States. The sixteen million people in the US who fall under this classification share the fear of a family member's possible deportation or the anxiety of leaving behind a child or elderly relative.

Rodriguez highlights how different members of the same mixed-status families mediate undocumented statuses while maintaining the collective whole of a family. For many young adults, this may mean negotiating the sponsorship of their immigrant parents, and for the parents, planning for the emotional, physical, and financial well-being of their children in case of deportation.

Contested Americans is a timely book, filled with vivid storytelling, that shows how immigration policies, racism, and privilege collide in the backdrop of the lives of millions of mixed-status families.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cassaundra Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times.

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9781479800537: Contested Americans: Mixed-status Families in Anti-immigrant Times

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1479800538 ISBN 13 :  9781479800537
Editeur : New York University Press, 2023
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