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Patterns of Family Visitation During Immigration Detention

Caitlin Patler, Nicholas Branic
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2017, 3 (4) 18-36; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.02
Caitlin Patler
aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis
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bPhD student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
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