Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State Care and Contested Interests
University of Pennsylvania Press (2014)
Through interviews with children and their families, attorneys, social workers, policy-makers, law enforcement, and diplomats, anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink foregrounds the voices of migrant children and youth who must navigate the legal and emotional terrain of U.S. immigration policy.
View Textbook InformationChildren’s Legal Rights Journal: Special Issue on Immigrant Children and Families
Civitas Child Law Center, Loyola University Chicago & the ABA Center on Children and the Law (Spring 2013)
This special issue includes articles that address the intersection between the legal and child welfare systems.
Read Full Journal IssueImplications of Important State Child Welfare/Immigration-Related Appellate Court Opinions
Migration and Child Welfare National Network (April 2013)
This brief, written by Howard Davidson, Director of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Association, reviews a number of state appellate court decisions that have involved immigration issues in child welfare cases. For each case, a summary of the appellate court opinion is presented, along with implications for child welfare and legal systems.
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Latino Children of Immigrants in the Child Welfare System
Findings From the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (Part II)
Alan J. Dettlaff, PhD, and Ilze Earner, PhD
Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) on the characteristics, risk factors, and types of maltreatment in cases involving children of immigrants in the child welfare system. The findings reported in these briefs represent the first national data available on the presence of children of immigrants in the child welfare system. In addition, these findings identify significant differences in the presence of risk factors and types of maltreatment between children of immigrants and children of U.S.-born parents.
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Findings From the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (Part I)
Alan J. Dettlaff, PhD, and Ilze Earner, PhD
Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) on the characteristics, risk factors, and types of maltreatment in cases involving children of immigrants in the child welfare system. The findings reported in these briefs represent the first national data available on the presence of children of immigrants in the child welfare system. In addition, these findings identify significant differences in the presence of risk factors and types of maltreatment between children of immigrants and children of U.S.-born parents.
Read the BriefShattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System
Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation (formerly the Applied Research Center) (November 2011)
This extensive report is the first national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system intersect. It explores the extent to which children in foster care are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents and the failures of the child welfare system to adequately work to reunify these families.
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