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Fragile Families - Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Fragile Families - Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship (Hardcover)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family
rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have
taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political
debates. These debates, however, frequently overlook the role of
the public child welfare system in the United States-the agency
charged with protecting children and maintaining the integrity of
families. Based on research conducted in the San Diego-Tijuana
region between 2008 and 2012, Fragile Families tells the stories of
children, parents, social workers, and legal actors enmeshed in the
child welfare system, and sheds light on the particular challenges
faced by the children of detained and deported non-U.S. citizen
parents who are simultaneously caught up in the immigration system
in this border region. Many families come into contact with child
welfare services because of the precariousness of their
lives-unsafe housing, unstable employment, and the conditions of
violence, drug use, and domestic violence made visible by the
heightened police presence in impoverished communities. Naomi
Glenn-Levin Rodriguez examines the character of child welfare
decision-making processes and how discretionary decisions
constitute the central avenue through which race, citizenship, and
other cultural processes inflect child welfare practice in a manner
that disproportionately impacts Latina/o families-both undocumented
and U.S. citizens. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork to look at how
immigration enforcement and child welfare play central roles in the
ongoing production of citizenship, race, and national belonging,
Fragile Families focuses on the everyday experiences of Latina/o
families whose lives are shaped at the nexus of child welfare
services and immigration enforcement.
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