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Whose Child Am I? - Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody (Paperback)
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Whose Child Am I? - Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody (Paperback)
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In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young
migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the
U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had
escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six
Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their
homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking
their lives, on the perilous journey north. They suffer coercive
arrests at the U.S. border, then land in detention, only to be
caught up in the battle to obtain legal status. Whose Child Am I?
looks inside a vast, labyrinthine system by documenting in detail
the experiences of these youths, beginning with their arrest by
immigration authorities, their subsequent placement in federal
detention, followed by their appearance in deportation proceedings
and release from custody, and, finally, ending with their struggle
to build new lives in the United States. This book shows how the
U.S. government got into the business of detaining children and
what we can learn from this troubled history.
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