Dreams and nightmares : immigration policy, youth, and families

Dreams and nightmares : immigration policy, youth, and families / Marjorie S. Zatz and Nancy Rodriguez.

"Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy b...

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Main Authors: Zatz, Marjorie Sue, 1955- (Author), Rodriguez, Nancy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Immigrant youth > United States > Social conditions.
Unaccompanied immigrant children > United States > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Immigrant families > Law and legislation > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Emigration and immigration law
Immigrant youth > Social conditions
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and historical context
  • Prosecutorial discretion: a mechanism for balancing competing goals
  • Legislative inaction and executive action: mixed status families, the dreamer movement and DACA
  • Families torn apart: parental detention and deportation
  • No good options: unaccompanied minors in the US immigration system
  • Conclusions and recommendations.

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