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24-10-2016 | Book Review

Susan J. Terrio: Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody

University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2015, 280 pp, ISBN: 9780520281493

Auteur: Jose Luis Rodriguez III

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 12/2016

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For years, thousands of young migrants south of the border have been shuffled through the United States’ shady juvenile detention system. In 2014, this system, which had evaded public scrutiny, had finally been exposed. Susan Terrio, a Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University, gives an excellent analysis of the system, and provides real life testimonials from some of the unaccompanied and undocumented migrants in her book Whose Child Am I. For many young migrants who fled for fear of death and violence, fear of no future, or simply in search of identity, this journey of hope ends in a grave or behind bars in the states. For the ones behind bars, the journey is not over. The long and drawn-out fight for legal status ensues until granted status or more commonly not. For the many who are not granted legal status, a fear of deportation hangs over them and their families. Will a child’s journey end in a grave, legal status, or stripped from their families and deported back to a place they no longer call home? …
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Titel
Susan J. Terrio: Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody
University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2015, 280 pp, ISBN: 9780520281493
Auteur
Jose Luis Rodriguez III
Publicatiedatum
24-10-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0590-3