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Journal articles on the topic "Children of illegal aliens – Fiction"
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Durand, Jorge, and Douglas S. Massey. "Desenmascarando la migración irregular a Estados Unidos." Migración y Desarrollo 20, no. 38 (May 8, 2022): 71–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.35533/myd.2038.jd.dsm.
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Mexicans have been migrating to the United States in large numbers since the early 20th century and over time the share classified as irregular has varied sharply depending on the social, economic, and political circumstances prevailing north of the Mexico-U.S. border. Here we unmask the reality that irregular migration is more of a socio-political construction than a well-defined legal category. Over time, the share of Mexicans classified as legal immigrants, temporary legal workers, or irregular migrants has varied widely. Since 2008, however, unauthorized migration from Mexico has waned and Central Americans have taken the place of Mexicans among those apprehended along the Mexico-U.S. border. Rather than being processed as asylum seekers, Central Americans being are criminalized as «illegal migrants» and sent into detention facilities to maintain the fiction of an ongoing «alien invasion» from south of the border. The repressive pressure directed disproportionately at Latin American immigrants can be expected to have far reaching consequences given that Latinos now constitute more than 18% of the U.S. population, 26% of all children aged five and under, and the vast majority of children living with parents in irregular status are native U.S. citizens.
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Bick, Ilsa J. "Aliens Among US: A Representation of Children in Science Fiction." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 37, no. 3 (June 1989): 737–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000306518903700308.
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Patiño, Jimmy. "“You Don’t Know Exactly Which Country You Have to Belong To”." Pacific Historical Review 89, no. 3 (2020): 347–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2020.89.3.347.
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This article examines the 1931 desegregation case based in Southeast San Diego County, Roberto Alvarez v. Lemon Grove Independent School District, through the lens of the deportation regime. This analysis reveals the ways new pressures from deportation-based immigration policies initiated in the 1920s complicated widely shared notions of transnational Mexicano identity and emphasized differences in nativity and citizenship status. The practice of apprehending individuals identified as “illegal aliens” took on a new form during the repatriation efforts of the Great Depression—removal. Within this new context, this article highlights the significance of the fact that working-class Mexican-origin migrant parents mobilized to demand educational equality for their children and to reject segregation. It illuminates how the Lemon Grove Mexican-origin community gave expression to a more expansive notion of their anti-segregation worldview than that found in the court ruling. They envisioned a community that was transnational and inclusive regardless of citizenship status, and they challenged segregation beyond mere claims to whiteness, critiquing inequality of resources with little reference to assimilationist goals.
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Carrasco Carrasco, Rocío. "Alien Invasions and Identity Crisis: Steven Spielberg’s The War of the Worlds (2005)." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 29 (November 15, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2016.29.01.
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The idea of national identity as threatened by foreign invasions has been at the centre of many popular Science Fiction (SF) films in the United States of America. In alien invasion films, aggressive colonisers stand for collective anxieties and can be read “as metaphors for a range of perceived threats to humanity, or particular groups, ranging from 1950s communism to the AIDS virus and contemporary ‘illegal aliens’ of human origin” (King and Krzywinska, 2000: 31-2). Such films can effectively tell historical and cultural specificities, including gender concerns. In them, the characters’ sense of belonging to a nation is destabilised in a number of ways, resulting in identity crisis in most cases. A fervent need to defend the nation from the malevolent strangers is combined with an alienation of the self in the search of individual salvation or survival.The present analysis will attempt to illustrate how threats to configurations of power are employed in a contemporary alien invasion film: The War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005). Specifically, the film takes the narrative of destruction to suggest the destabilisation of US national power within the context of post September 11, together with a subtle disruption of the gender and sexual status quo. Indeed, new ways of understanding masculinity and fatherhood assault both the public and the private spaces of its white male heterosexual protagonist, Ray, performed by popular actor Tom Cruise. Ambiguous patriotism, identity crises and selfishness are at the core of this contemporary version of H.G. Wells’s landmark novel.
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Pennebaker, Stuart. "Rental Units." After Dinner Conversation 5, no. 1 (2024): 52–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc2024515.
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Should everyone be a parent, at least for a summer? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator lives in a dystopian future where climate change has made it illegal to have children without government permission. This has given rise to super realistic robot children that can be purchased or, for those that can’t afford to purchase, rented. The narrator has a strong desire to be a mother and has, for the last 10 years, rented the same seven- and five-year-old robot girls each summer to parent. It’s an expensive habit, but she loves her summers taking her “children” to the local swimming pool. She loves reading them stories at bedtime, and tucking them in. As the summer winds down, trauma hits as one of her girls shuts down. She has reached the end of her service cycle. The narrator is devastated by the loss of her child, even though her younger daughter hardly seems to notice the loss at all.
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Moura, Hudson. "Hollywood’s Viral Outbreaks and Pandemics: Horror, Fantasy, and the Political Entertainment of Film Genres." Revista Légua & Meia 13, no. 1 (January 26, 2022): 97–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/lm.v13i1.7710.
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Films revolving around big natural catastrophes, the end of the world, and global pandemics are viral in Hollywood. Some authors claim that 9/11 enticed the proliferation of disasters, zombies, and apocalyptical narratives. Will the coronavirus further increase these narrative tropes? A cinematic apocalypse takes many shapes, including zombie infestation, nuclear war devastation, and aliens’ attack. Watching films such as Twelve Monkeys (1995), Children of Men (2006), or Contagion (2011) during a real-life global pandemic creates a much different viewing experience than when these films were released. Certain films kill humans with a deadly virus and turn them into zombies emphasizing and pushing forward to a cinema of genre its entertainment features, such as I Am Legend (2007), Train to Busan (2016), or Blood Quantum (2020). However, they also use horror, science fiction, and fantasy genres to portray a realistic compelling family drama or discuss structural racism and systemic colonialism against America’s indigenous peoples. In all these films, scientific ambition, political greed, and economic power intermingle, becoming the unknown forces and real detractors behind these catastrophes. Whether or not the end of the world is an appropriate story for entertainment attracts most viewers to Hollywood cinema. Conventional postapocalyptic tropes create a film riddled with relevant political concerns. Every year, hundreds of films transpose to the screen compelling narratives related to pandemics and their effects. In Coronavirus’s times, I analyze and contextualize several of Hollywood’s viral outbreaks to situate their narratives to current political subjects and understand how disaster and pandemic films have become entertaining.
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Hollywood cinema, Film Genres, Pandemics, Coronavirus, Racism, Indigenous, Covid19, Politics, Film Aesthetic, Disaster Films.
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Prieto Stambaugh, Antonio. "La performa extraña de la ciencia ficción chicana." Investigación Teatral. Revista de artes escénicas y performatividad 14, no. 24 (October 25, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.25009/it.v14i24.2750.
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Este artículo aborda el imaginario de ciencia ficción en obras de teatro y performance realizadas por El Teatro Campesino, el grupo chicano Asco y el grupo La Pocha Nostra, los cuales se valieron de los tropos del robot y el extraterrestre para cuestionar el miedo que genera en la sociedad dominante un grupo social visto como extranjero y amenazante, integrado por “illegal aliens”. Sus obras ponen en escena performas extrañas que materializan la otredad mediante personajes distópicos que juegan con los estereotipos del latinoamericano invasor. El robot y alienígena extraterrestre sirven para alegorizar la deshumanización social y la marginación política de la comunidad latina en Estados Unidos. Se argumenta que la ciencia ficción chicana tiene potencia descolonizadora a la vez que, en su variante queer de la poeta Gloria Anzaldúa, propone a la entidad alienígena como un puente hacia la alteridad.
The Strange Performance of Chicano Science Fiction
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This article addresses how science fiction imagery is represented in performances of the Chicano and Latino groups El Teatro Campesino, Asco and La Pocha Nostra, who used the robot and the extraterrestrial as tropes that question the fear and prejudice surrounding communities seen as populated by dangerous “illegal aliens”. The performances discussed stage strangeness and otherness by means of dystopic characters that play with the stereotype of the dark skinned Latin American as invader. The robot and the alien work as allegories of the social and political marginalization suffered by Latinos in the United States. Chicano science fiction has a decolonial potential that is queered by poet Gloria Anzaldúa, who posits the alien entity as a bridge towards alterity.
Recibido: 30 de junio de 2023Aceptado: 28 de agosto de 2023
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"Huseini v. Ministry of Justice and Public Security." International Law Reports 181 (2019): 419–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108562522.007.
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Aliens — Asylum seekers — Detention of migrant children — Family detained in detention centre — Conditions in detention centre — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 3, 5 and 8 — Jurisprudence of European Court of Human Rights — Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, Articles 3 and 37 — Whether detention of migrant children and their parents illegal — Whether Norway violating international obligations and Constitution of Norway — Whether damages appropriateHuman rights — Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment — Whether detention of children and their parents illegal — Jurisprudence of European Court of Human Rights — Age of children — Length and conditions of detention — Whether violation of Article 3 of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950Human rights — Right to freedom and security — Whether detention of children and their parents illegal — Jurisprudence of European Court of Human Rights — Whether detention of family measure of last resort with no possible alternative — Whether violation of Article 5(1) of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950Human rights — Right to respect for private and family life — Whether detention of children and their parents illegal — Jurisprudence of European Court of Human Rights — Whether detention justified — Whether compelling societal needs — Whether proportionate — Whether violation of Article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950Human rights — Rights of the child — Whether detention of children illegal — Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, Articles 3 and 37 — Interpretation of Article 3 — Best interests of the child — Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment — Whether measure strictly necessary — Whether violation of Articles 3 and 37 of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 3, 5 and 8 — Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, Articles 3 and 37 — Constitution of Norway — Jurisprudence of European Court of Human Rights — 2015 report by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture — Whether detention of migrant children and their parents illegal — Whether damages appropriate — The law of Norway
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Borle, Sean. "We’re All Wonders by R. Palacio." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 7, no. 2 (October 30, 2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g25h4w.
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Palacio, R.J. We’re All Wonders. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017This is one of several picture books which R.J. Palacio has spun off her bestselling novel, Wonder, which introduced Auggie, a boy missing his left eye. There are few picture books about children with facial deformities, so this is a welcome addition. In condensing the novel into a picture book, however, much of the positive content has been lost. This is a sad story. Auggie is not accepted by other children. When he feels sad he puts helmets on his dog and himself to isolate himself from people’s stares. However, a child and dog with helmets are likely to attract as many stares. Auggie’s other coping mechanisms include: an imaginary trip to Pluto, where his “old friends” are one-eyed creatures that look a bit like sheep with tentacles, and wishing that “other people can change the way they see”. Given that there is a long science fiction history of scary one-eyed space aliens and monsters, it seems strange that Palacio would associate her character with them. Wishing that the world was different does not make it different. We do not see the positive things that were in the novel such as people sticking up for Auggie or his intelligence and achievements.Palacio’s artwork is bright and easily accessible to small children. Strangely, though, the final image shows only the right half of Auggie’s face, with the earth replacing his eye, while the left half, that is the focus of the whole story, is missing.This book would be good for classrooms where there are children with physical differences, but it would be important for teachers to add a positive spin to the story. Recommended: 3 stars out of 4Reviewer: Sean BorleSean Borle is a University of Alberta undergraduate student who is an advocate for child health and safety.
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Dzhurova, Albena. "The politics of language: Exploring the DREAMers as the “alien other” in the narratives of immigration." Politics & Policy, October 21, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/polp.12562.
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AbstractRecently, the Biden administration banned federal agencies from using the phrase “illegal alien,” replacing it with a less dehumanizing expression (e.g., noncitizen, undocumented immigrant, etc.). This article delves into the origins of the alien reference by surveying the case of the DREAMers—a small subset of immigrants brought to the United States as children. Designated as aliens in the broader immigration context, the DREAMers epitomize a problematic narrative depicting the overall “otherness” as deep‐seated in America. I impose Agamben‘s image of the homo sacer onto the conceptualization of otherness to frame the DREAMers as alienated (exempted from the limits of the political state), waiting to enter society through formal legislation. Critically examining the narratives of policy makers in Congress, I study how political elites use language to reinforce existing power structures. In the two‐decade attempt of Congress to resolve the DREAMers‘ marginalized status, they are infantilized and, hence, stigmatized anew.Related ArticlesDuman, Yoav H. 2014. “Reducing the Fog? Immigrant Regularization and the State.” Politics & Policy 42(2): 187–220. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12065.Garrett, Terence M. 2020. “The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra: The Effects of Trump‘s Zero Tolerance Policy on Migrants and Refugees in the Rio Grande Valley.” Politics & Policy 48(2): 372–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12348.Garrett, Terence M., and Arthur J. Sementelli. 2022. “COVID‐19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Creating States of Exception.” Politics & Policy 51(3): 872–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12484.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Children of illegal aliens – Fiction"
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Ramos, Oscar. "U.S. citizen children, undocumented immigrant parents how parental undocumented status affects citizen children's educational achievement /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1463895.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-98).
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Roberts, Brittanie Alexandria. "The Impact of Documentation Status on the Educational Attainment Experiences of Undocumented Hispanic/Latino Students." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2083.
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The issue of undocumented immigration has recently taken center-stage in the media and national politics in the United States. A large population of undocumented youth grows up with legal access to public education through high school, following the Supreme Court decision of Plyler vs. Doe, but faces legal and economic barriers to post-secondary education. Following high school, undocumented Hispanic/Latino youth legal protections end, greatly limiting chances for upward mobility through traditional post-secondary education pipelines. In some cases, knowledge of future barriers to post-secondary education leads to a decline in educational motivation.
The current political atmosphere makes this study a bit of a moving target as the Obama administration recently passed a reprieve. This reprieve, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Process (DACA) does not confer any legal status or open any future path to citizenship. It does, however, grant eligible applicants a work permit, and the opportunity to travel, work, and attend school with a sense of security.
The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the perceptions and understandings of undocumented Hispanic/Latino youth and their pursuits of higher education in. It is primarily concerned with the educational issues and opportunities facing these students. This research explores the impact of Hispanic/Latino students' perceptions of legal status barriers on their educational attainment experiences. The different opportunities and obstacles present in access to post-secondary education for undocumented Hispanic/Latino students residing in the United States are examined. This study focuses on the time period just after high school graduation, a critical stage in these students' lives, when undocumented status is particularly consequential.
Knowledge about students' perception of their educational progress sheds light on their educational attainment experiences; it illuminates important factors associated with their individual educational experiences. Interactions with teachers, school authorities, their parents, siblings, peers, and other authority figures could be described in connecting personal interpretations and emotional responses to specific events in their lives that they feel helped or hindered their educational progress. Knowing how undocumented Hispanic/Latino youth identify and understand the factors that facilitate or impede their navigation of post-secondary education, will further inform educators and researchers alike.
This study offers the possibility of identifying additional factors for educators, researchers, and our communities that hinder or facilitate the educational navigation and success of undocumented students. This type of research is significant as this marginalized population lives and works within the American society; the successes and struggles of these students impacts the United States as a whole. Moreover, these students possess amazing potential; we need to better understand and serve this population in order to both improve their life experiences, and to benefit from their input and abilities.
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Koo, Yilmin. "Framing the DREAM Act: An Analysis of Congressional Speeches." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157597/.
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Initially proposed in 2001, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) continues to be relevant after nearly 20 years of debate. The year 2010 was significant because there seemed to be some possibility of passage. This study investigated the ways in which the DREAM Act discourse was framed that year by supporters and opponents. Selected Congressional speeches of three supporters and three opponents were analyzed using the approach to frame analysis developed by Schön and Rein. Accordingly, attention went to each individual's metacultural frame (i.e., culturally shared beliefs), policy frame (i.e., identification of problem and presentation of possible solution), and rhetorical frame (i.e., means of persuading the audience). Attention also went to the shared framing among supporters and the shared framing among opponents as well as differences in framing across the two groups. Although speakers varied in framing the issue, there were commonalities within groups and contrasts between groups. For supporters, the metacultural frame emphasized equity/equal opportunity, fairness, and rule of law; for opponents, the metacultural frame stressed rule of law, patriotism, and national security. For supporters, the policy frame underscored unfairness as the problem and the DREAM Act as the solution; for opponents, the policy frame emphasized the DREAM Act as the problem and defeating the DREAM Act as the solution. Rhetorical frames also differed, with the supporters making much use of testimonial examples and the opponents making much use of hyperbole. The study illustrates (1) how the same named values and beliefs can have dramatically different interpretations in metacultural framing, as were the case for rule of law and American dream in this discourse; (2) how the crux of an issue and its intractability can be seen by looking at how the problem is posed and how the solution is argued, and (3) how speakers strengthen their claims with particular kinds of rhetorical devices. Through descriptions of political positioning on the DREAM Act, the study contributes to understandings of ongoing issues regarding the lives of undocumented young people who have received and are receiving education in the U.S.
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Sokhansanj, Banafsheh. "Chinese migrant children and Canadian migration law." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16691.
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This thesis reviews the underlying theoretical and normative paradigm in Canadian
migration and asylum law and its effect on the refugee determination process with
respect to the approximately 100 unaccompanied children who were among 599
migrants from Fujian Province, People's Republic of China who arrived in four boats off
the coast of British Columbia, Canada in the Summer of 1999. Upon deconstructing
Canadian migration legislation and jurisprudence, especially with respect to asylum, it is
apparent that the dominant paradigm is one of liberal communitarianism/realism, rather
than one based on individual, universal human rights. This communitarian/realist
paradigm is reflected in and reinforced by normative distinctions between immigrants
and illegal migrants, and between politically motivated, forced migrants (refugees) and
economically motivated, voluntary migrants (illegal migrants). Illegal migrants, such as
the Fujianese children, are de-legitimized and criminalized under Canadian migration
law. Moreover, this paradigm had the effect of subsuming the children's human rights
claims into an assessment of their motivations for, and the voluntariness of, their
emigration, that is, into a refugee determination process based on an understanding of
the children's migration that was both inherently incoherent and inconsistent with a
nuanced comprehension of migration as a structural phenomenon. The author
concludes with a proposal for the development of a more strongly human-rights based
paradigm in Canadian migration and asylum law.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Books on the topic "Children of illegal aliens – Fiction"
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Restrepo, Bettina. Illegal. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2011.
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Temple, Frances. Grab hands and run. New York: HarperTrophy, 1995.
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Beatty, Patricia. Lupita Mañana. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1995.
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Alcock, Vivien. Stranger at the window. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
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Paulsen, Gary. Sisters =: Hermanas. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1993.
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Nadine, Gordimer. The pickup. Toronto: Viking, 2001.
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Harper, Jo. Delfino's journey. Lubbock, Tex: Texas Tech University Press, 2001.
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Daisy, Cubias, ed. Journey of the sparrows. New York, N.Y: Dell, 1993.
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Daisy, Cubias, ed. Journey of the sparrows. New York: Lodestar Books, 1991.
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Ives, David. Voss: How I come to America and am hero, mostly. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
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Hansen, Tobin. "Social Citizens and Their Right to Belong." In Illegal Encounters, 32–44. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479887798.003.0003.
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This chapter centers on migrants who were brought to the United States as children and who grew up here. Over time, children become embedded within U.S. communities, developing personal histories and social bonds as they reach adulthood. However, many of the young male interviewees found themselves caught up in a criminal and immigration enforcement system that they may not be able to exit. As undocumented Mexican youth in the United States, they may be subject to discrimination and labeled as “criminal aliens,” a racialized practice designed to confine and expel social undesirables, despite their strong connections to families, communities, and the nation. Focusing on claims of belonging and memories of apprehension, detention, and deportation among men in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, the chapter demonstrates how, over time, multiple structures of social, economic, and political marginalization in the United States result in the expulsion of Mexican nationals who identify as U.S. social citizens.
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"9. Plyler v. Doe (1982) and Educating Children of Illegal Aliens." In Latinos and American Law, 118–32. University of Texas Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/713109-011.
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