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Title: Cortando Raices: Ninos Estadounidenses con Padres en Riesgo de Deportacin

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: An estimated 4.5 million U.S. born children of undocumented immigrant parents face an uphill path towards integration as a consequence of their parents legal status. Since 1996, immigration policy has taken a sharp turn towards restriction, decreasing viable paths towards citizenship while at the same time expanding the legal definition of undocumented immigrants subject to deportation. As a result, U.S. immigration policys family reunification principle has been left in the background, while giving way to a massive deportation regime. This has an impact on the assimilation process of citizen children whose parents have been deported or who have no possibility of legalizing their immigration status. Children with undocumented parents are confronted by educational, socio-economic, and cultural challenges regardless of their U.S. citizenship. The main source of information were databases from the U.S. Census, American Community Survey, obtained through IPUMS-USA. The quantitative information presented was complemented with in depth interviews of immigrant families in Worthington, Minnesota.

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Authors: Alatorre Najera, Miguel M

Institution: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Department: Population Studies

Advisor: Dr. Rodolfo Cruz Pineiro

Degree: Maestro en Enstudios de Poblacion

Publisher Location: Tijuana, B.C., Mexico

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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