View in EDS PDF Full Text ePub Full Text

Everyday Illegal : When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Everyday Illegal : When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Description: 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 respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked.In Everyday Illegal, award-winning author Joanna Dreby recounts the stories of children and parents in eighty-one families to show what happens when a restrictive immigration system emphasizes deportation over legalization. Interweaving her own experiences, Dreby illustrates how bitter strains can arise in relationships when spouses have different legal status. She introduces us to'suddenly single mothers'who struggle to place food on the table and pay rent after their husbands have been deported. Taking us into the homes and schools of children living in increasingly vulnerable circumstances, she presents families that are divided internally, with some children having legal status while their siblings are undocumented. Even children who are U.S. citizens regularly associate immigration with illegality.With vivid ethnographic details and a striking narrative, Everyday Illegal forces us to confront the devastating impacts of our immigration policies as seen through the eyes of children and their families. As legal status influences identity formation, alters the division of power within families, and affects the opportunities children have outside the home, it becomes a growing source of inequality that ultimately touches us all.
Authors: Joanna Dreby
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Immigrants--Family relationships--United States--Case studies, Illegal immigration--United States--Case studies, Children of immigrants--United States--Case studies, Noncitizens--United States--Case studies, Noncitizens
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-pdf
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 948301
RelevancyScore: 1064
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1063.91076660156
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$948301$PDF&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$948301$PDF&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Everyday Illegal : When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: 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 respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked.In Everyday Illegal, award-winning author Joanna Dreby recounts the stories of children and parents in eighty-one families to show what happens when a restrictive immigration system emphasizes deportation over legalization. Interweaving her own experiences, Dreby illustrates how bitter strains can arise in relationships when spouses have different legal status. She introduces us to'suddenly single mothers'who struggle to place food on the table and pay rent after their husbands have been deported. Taking us into the homes and schools of children living in increasingly vulnerable circumstances, she presents families that are divided internally, with some children having legal status while their siblings are undocumented. Even children who are U.S. citizens regularly associate immigration with illegality.With vivid ethnographic details and a striking narrative, Everyday Illegal forces us to confront the devastating impacts of our immigration policies as seen through the eyes of children and their families. As legal status influences identity formation, alters the division of power within families, and affects the opportunities children have outside the home, it becomes a growing source of inequality that ultimately touches us all.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Joanna+Dreby%22">Joanna Dreby</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Immigrants--Family+relationships--United+States--Case+studies%22">Immigrants--Family relationships--United States--Case studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Illegal+immigration--United+States--Case+studies%22">Illegal immigration--United States--Case studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Children+of+immigrants--United+States--Case+studies%22">Children of immigrants--United States--Case studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Noncitizens--United+States--Case+studies%22">Noncitizens--United States--Case studies</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Noncitizens%22">Noncitizens</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Sociology+%2F+General%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22SOCIAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Minority+Studies%22">SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=948301
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 305.906912
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: Immigrants--Family relationships--United States--Case studies
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Illegal immigration--United States--Case studies
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Children of immigrants--United States--Case studies
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Noncitizens--United States--Case studies
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Noncitizens
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Everyday Illegal : When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Joanna Dreby
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Joanna Dreby
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2015
            – D: 28
              M: 03
              Type: profile
              Y: 2015
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9780520283398
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9780520283404
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780520959279
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Everyday Illegal : When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
              Type: main
ResultId 1