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Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times - Latina/o Sociology Cassaundra Rodriguez
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Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times - Latina/o Sociology
Cassaundra Rodriguez
Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved
ones
Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother's deportation hearing is postponed--again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families--those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In Contested Americans, Cassaundra Rodriguez explores how members of mixed-status families experience and articulate belonging in the United States. The sixteen million people in the US who fall under this classification share the fear of a family member's possible deportation or the anxiety of leaving behind a child or elderly relative.
Rodriguez highlights how different members of the same mixed-status families mediate undocumented statuses while maintaining the collective whole of a family. For many young adults, this may mean negotiating the sponsorship of their immigrant parents, and for the parents, planning for the emotional, physical, and financial well-being of their children in case of deportation.
Contested Americans is a timely book, filled with vivid storytelling, that shows how immigration policies, racism, and privilege collide in the backdrop of the lives of millions of mixed-status families.
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272 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 3, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781479800537 |
| Publishers | New York University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 158 × 25 mm · 568 g |
| Language | English |
