Download Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Android

Download Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and
Citizenship (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Android

Download Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship
(Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Android
Description :
In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and
accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in
popular media and mainstream political debates. These debates, however,
frequently overlook the role of the public child welfare system in the United
States the agency charged with protecting children and maintaining the
integrity of families. Based on research conducted in the San Diego-Tijuana
region between 2008 and 2012, Fragile Families tells the stories of children,
parents, social workers, and legal actors enmeshed in the child welfare
system, and sheds light on the particular challenges faced by the children of
detained and deported non-U.S. citizen parents who are simultaneously
caught up in the immigration system in this border region.Many families come
into contact with child welfare services because of the precariousness of their
lives unsafe housing, unstable employment, and the conditions of violence,
drug use, and domestic violence made visible by the heightened police
presence in impoverished communities. Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez
examines the character of child welfare decision-making processes and how
discretionary decisions constitute the central avenue through which race,
citizenship, and other cultural processes inflect child welfare practice in a
manner that disproportionately impacts Latina/o families both undocumented
and U.S. citizens. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork to look at how
immigration enforcement and child welfare play central roles in the ongoing
production of citizenship, race, and national belonging, Fragile Families
focuses on the everyday experiences of Latina/o families whose lives are
shaped at the nexus of child welfare services and immigration enforcement.