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20-10-2017 | Book Review

Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez: Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship

Inc.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 142 pp, ebook, ISBN 9780812294286

Auteur: Alexis Klutinoty

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 12/2017

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Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship is written by Naomi Rodriguez who shadowed a foster care organization in San Diego, California called Esperanza. The majority of children that Esperanza deals with are undocumented children of illegal immigrants in the United States. Rodriguez’s goal with this book was to point out places where the child welfare and immigration systems fall short in acting in the best interest of children. Chapter by chapter, she describes the entanglement of these two systems and how it affects the process of a child being removed, placed, and/or reunified with their biological family. Rodriguez successfully opens discussions about several issues in these systems that often go unnoticed. …
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Metagegevens
Titel
Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez: Fragile Families: Foster Care, Immigration, and Citizenship
Inc.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 142 pp, ebook, ISBN 9780812294286
Auteur
Alexis Klutinoty
Publicatiedatum
20-10-2017
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 12/2017
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0778-1

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