TY - BOOK ID - 31002982 TI - Whose child am I? PY - 2015 SN - 0520281497 0520281489 0520961447 9780520961449 9780520281486 9780520281493 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Unaccompanied immigrant children KW - Illegal alien children KW - Undocumented children KW - Children KW - Unaccompanied children (Immigrants) KW - Unaccompanied minors (Immigrants) KW - Immigrant children KW - Government policy KW - Unauthorized immigrant children KW - Juvenile detention KW - Immigration enforcement KW - Mexicans KW - Central Americans KW - Ethnology KW - Immigration law enforcement KW - Immigration raids KW - Law enforcement KW - Child detention KW - Youth detention KW - Detention of persons KW - Juvenile corrections KW - Undocumented immigrant children KW - Illegal immigrant children KW - Unaccompanied alien children KW - Undocumented child immigrants KW - Unaccompanied noncitizen children KW - Noncitizen children KW - Illegal immigration. KW - Children of illegal aliens KW - Illegal aliens KW - Irregular migration KW - Unauthorized immigration KW - Undocumented immigration KW - Women illegal aliens KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Human smuggling KW - Noncitizen detention centers KW - Unaccompanied immigrant children-Government policy-United States-Case studies.. KW - Illegal alien children-Government policy-United States-Case studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31002982 AB - "In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking their lives, on the perilous journey north. They suffer coercive arrests at the U.S. border, then land in detention, only to be caught up in the battle to obtain legal status. Whose Child Am I? looks inside a vast, labyrinthine system by documenting in detail the experiences of these youths, beginning with their arrest by immigration authorities, their subsequent placement in federal detention, followed by their appearance in deportation proceedings and release from custody, and, finally, ending with their struggle to build new lives in the United States. This book shows how the U.S. government got into the business of detaining children and what we can learn from this troubled history"--Provided by publisher. ER -