Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families Joanna Dreby (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)

Zaretsky, Natasha

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“…More broadly speaking, a culture of fear related to the possibility of an immigration raid or other type of enforcement action has amplified in immigrant communities over the past decade (Asad, 2020;Hing, 2018). Although grounded in immigrants' relative sense of disposability, fears may extend beyond the individual directly at risk and manifest as an aspect of everyday life for those living in mixed-status families, shaping parent-child relationships and parenting practices (Dreby, 2015;Enriquez, 2015). Many parents experience anxiety while driving, or in interactions with police officers, due to the racialized nature of immigration enforcement (Prieto, 2018;Schmalzbauer, 2014;Sun & Yuning, 2018).…”

Section: The Impacts Of Enforcement On Childrenmentioning

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“…Deportations following a conviction that involved jail‐time targets foreign‐born individuals regardless of status, unless they naturalize, and destabilizes families who often previously felt integrated into U.S. communities. Additionally, they are gendered, disproportionately targeting men, resulting in single‐parent, female‐headed households (Dreby, 2015; Golash‐Boza & Hondagneu‐Sotelo, 2013). Finally, these deportations result in permanent household changes because current laws bar deportees from re‐entry even after having served time for their crimes.…”

Section: Enforcement Episodesmentioning

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The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

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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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Section: The Impacts Of Enforcement On Childrenmentioning

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Section: Enforcement Episodesmentioning

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The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

Dreby

Macias

2023

Law Soc Rev

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“…With some exceptions (see Canizales 2021aCanizales , 2021bDiaz-Strong 2021), research examining undocumented youth's stressors has tended to focus on the mental and emotional health tolls of transitioning in social roles from student to worker (Gonzales 2015), from child to parent (Enriquez 2020), or in legal statuses from undocumented to DACAmented (Patler and Pirtle 2018). Common among them is the relentless fear of family separation through deportation (Dreby 2015). Left out of both undocumented Latinx worker and undocumented youth coming-of-age and incorporation research, the health experiences of unaccompanied, undocumented Latinx youth workers are important to consider because of the significance of labor market incorporation and work conditions for immigrant health (Dollar 2019) and the growing number of children migrating from Latin America to the United States in search of work each year.…”

Section: Undocumented Latinx Immigrant Health: Risks and Protective F...mentioning

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“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States

Canizales

2022

J Health Soc Behav

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Relying on in-depth interviews and ethnographic data in Los Angeles, California, this study examines the health experiences of unaccompanied, undocumented Latin American-origin immigrant youth as they come of age as low-wage workers. Findings demonstrate that unaccompanied, undocumented youth undergo cumulative physical and mental health disadvantages in the United States’s secondary labor market and during critical developmental life stages while lacking the parental monitoring and guidance to navigate them. Developing comparisons between their past and present living conditions and between themselves and other youth in Los Angeles—what I refer to as an emergent frame of reference—youth workers come to perceive family disruptions, and especially separation from their parents, as the most salient factor affecting their health. While some youth ultimately resign themselves to short-term attempts to assuage illness, injury, or distress through activities like substance abuse, others pursue community connections and support groups that can sustain them long term.

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“…Children in turn witness their parents' fears and develop status-related behaviors as a result. Indeed, both undocumented and U.S.-born citizen children experience fears and/or worries about their parents' deportation, grow vigilant around police and immigration authorities; confuse immigration with illegality; and adopt stigmatized understandings of themselves and/or their parents (Dreby, 2012(Dreby, , 2015Rubio-Hernandez & Ayón, 2016). Accordingly, we use Ellis (2021) "cycles of deportability" framework to trace the psychosocial effects of migrant "illegality" across the lifespan as well as explore how these effects "spillover" to citizen children of undocumented parents (Aranda et al, 2014).…”

Section: Migrant "Illegality" and Youth Developmentmentioning

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“…As others have shown, children of undocumented parents develop fears about deportation and concerns related to their status even before they can fully grasp the meaning of undocumented status (Dreby, 2015;Kamal, 2018). Yet, developmental models of undocumented youth development have tended to underplay the role of these early experiences, and even less is known about how these experiences may impact the development of citizen children of undocumented parents.…”

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“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States

Ellis

Offidani-Bertrand

Ferrera

2022

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Building on recent studies of “racialized illegality,” this paper examines the psychosocial development of migrant “illegality” in a sample of ethnically and racially diverse immigrant young people. In-depth interviews and fieldnotes were collected in Chicago with White, Asian and Pacific Islander, and Latina/o immigrants ( N = 43; 14–33 years of age; 15 male, 28 female) who were undocumented and/or grew up in families with at least one undocumented parent, and who were asked to reflect on these experiences. Drawing upon the cycles of deportability framework, we theorize the psychosocial development of migrant “illegality” as a dynamic process driven by repeated, cyclical experiences with status-related stressors that regularly prompt acute fears as well as carry long-term psychosocial effects. Examining these cycles within our respondents’ reflections, we find discernible differences in both the types of status-related stressors and contexts of support experienced by Latina/o and non-Latina/o respondents, pointing to different cycles of deportability that vary along racial-ethnic lines. We maintain that these findings reflect the racialized context of migrant “illegality” in the United States, which targets primarily Latina/o migrants, as well as points to the need for increased supports for undocumented immigrants in non-Latina/o immigrant communities.

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Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families Joanna Dreby (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)

Cited by 19 publications

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The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

“Si Mis Papas Estuvieran Aquí”: Unaccompanied Youth Workers’ Emergent Frame of Reference and Health in the United States

“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States

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