Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests

by Lauren Heidbrink

Book Overview

In this ground-breaking ethnography, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink deconstructs the "problem" of migrant children, examining the historical, political, and institutional roots of contemporary immigration policies and the experiences of the migrant children who navigate this legal and emotional terrain.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246047
• ISBN13: 9780812246049
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"