Looking at the work of Junot Díaz, Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, and other Latino/a authors who are US citizens, Marta Caminero-Santangelo examines how writers are increasingly …
Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that US immigration policies and …
YC Padilla, ER Shapiro, MD Fernández-Castro… - Social Work, 2008 - JSTOR
Social workers have always been at the forefront of work with immigrants. From our profession's earliest days working with immigrants at the Hull House in Chicago to the …
Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in …
MA Grey, M Devlin, A Goldsmith - 2009 - books.google.com
An inside view of a rural Iowa town torn apart by greed, failed immigration policy and misguided view of diversity. Postville (population 2400) is an obscure meatpacking town in …
When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are US citizens. Despite having once had a green card, Gina was …
What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to …
M Marquardt, T Steigenga, P Williams, M Vásquez - 2013 - books.google.com
In June 2012, President Obama's executive order enforcing parts of the Dream Act and the Supreme Court's decision to block components of Arizona's draconian immigration law …
The United States (US) deportation system and its recent applications have profound implications for the integrity and well-being of immigrant families. Since harsh policies were …