Exploring the effects of US immigration enforcement on the well-being of citizen children in Mexican immigrant families

LE Gulbas, LH Zayas - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2017 - rsfjournal.org
In this article, we draw on ecocultural theories of risk and resilience to examine qualitatively
the experiences of US citizen children living with their undocumented Mexican parents. Our …

Authorized and unauthorized immigrant parents: The impact of legal vulnerability on family contexts

KM Brabeck, E Sibley… - Hispanic Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the social-ecological contexts of unauthorized immigrant families and
their US-born children, through examining how otherwise similarly low-income, urban …

Deportation experiences and depression among US citizen‐children with undocumented Mexican parents

LE Gulbas, LH Zayas, H Yoon, H Szlyk… - Child: care, health …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background There is a critical need to document the mental health effects of immigration
policies and practices on children vulnerable to parental deportation. Few studies capture …

Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear

FL Cross, D Rivas-Drake… - Qualitative Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anti-immigrant rhetoric generated by the sociopolitical climate under the current US
presidential administration has exacerbated the fear of deportation and family separation …

Luchamos por nuestros hijos: Latino immigrant parents strive to protect their children from the deleterious effects of anti-immigration policies

SP Philbin, C Ayón - Children and Youth Services Review, 2016 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to examine the strategies used by Latino immigrant parents to
protect their children from the deleterious effects of anti-immigration policies. In-depthsemi …

Applying a community violence framework to understand the impact of immigration enforcement threat on Latino children

RG Barajas‐Gonzalez, C Ayón, F Torres - Social Policy Report, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heeding the call put out by the New England Journal of Medicine (2017), we utilize an
ecological–transactional model as a conceptual framework for understanding existing …

Leveraging protections, navigating punishments: How adult children of undocumented immigrants mediate illegality in Latinx families

V Delgado - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective of this study is to examine how adult children of undocumented
immigrants manage parental illegality in Latinx immigrant families. Background There are …

Resilience and Vulnerability of Mexican Origin Youth and Their Families

RD Conger, H Song, GD Stockdale… - … and beyond: Family …, 2012 - books.google.com
The United States continues to undergo dramatic changes regarding the ethnic distribution
of young people in the population (see Cauce, Cruz, Corona, & Conger, 2011) …

[BOOK][B] Border brokers: Children of Mexican immigrants navigating US society, laws, and politics

C Getrich - 2019 - books.google.com
Some 16.6 million people nationwide live in mixed-status families, containing a combination
of US citizens, residents, and undocumented immigrants. US immigration governance has …

The distress of citizen-children with detained and deported parents

LH Zayas, S Aguilar-Gaxiola, H Yoon… - Journal of child and family …, 2015 - Springer
In immigration enforcement, many undocumented immigrants with children are often
detained and deported. But it is their US-born citizen-children that have been overlooked in …