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.
Latino U.S.-Citizen Children of Immigrants: A Generation at High Risk - Foundation For Child Development
Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People by Deborah A. Boehm, Paperback
Charting Directions for Research on Immigrant Children Affected by Undocumented Status - Luis H. Zayas, Kalina M. Brabeck, Laurie Cook Heffron, Joanna Dreby, Esther J. Calzada, J. Rubén Parra-Cardona, Alan J. Dettlaff, Lauren Heidbrink, Krista M
Joanna Dreby, SUNY Albany Illegality, Youth, and Belonging
Restoring the Rule of Law Through a Fair, Humane, and Workable Immigration System - Center for American Progress
DACA Lawsuit, PDF, Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals
Full article: Immigrants and wealth attainment: migration, inequality, and integration
Accidental Sisters by Kimberly Meyer, Alia Altikrity - Hardcover - University of California Press
Rebirth by Douglas Monroy - Paperback - University of California Press
Everyday Illegal - By Joanna Dreby (paperback) : Target
Exit and Voice by Lauren Duquette-Rury - Paperback - University of California Press
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care.
Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars [eBook]
Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families. By Joanna Dreby. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. xviii+287. $29.95 (paper).
Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America by Phoebe Ho, Hyunjoon Park, Grace Kao - Paperback - University of California Press
The Future of Migration - Public Books