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In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to “come and go.” Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States’ rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls “intimate migrations,” flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. Intimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.

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The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth. In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young people--those who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systems--because they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detention--they are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voices and everyday experiences of immigrant children and youth themselves. By combining different perspectives from advocates, service providers, attorneys, researchers, and young immigrants, the volume presents rich accounts that can contribute to informed debates and policy reforms. Illegal Encounters sheds light on the unique ways in which policies, laws, and legal categories shape so much of daily life for young immigrants. The book makes visible the burdens, hopes, and potential of a population of young people and their families who have been largely hidden from public view and are currently under siege, following their movement through complicated immigration systems and institutions in the United States.--Publisher website.

Noncitizen children --- Juvenile detention --- Deportation --- Mexicans --- Central Americans --- Illegal immigration. --- Government policy --- Social conditions. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Advance Parole. --- Central America. --- DACA. --- Dreamers. --- Guatemala. --- Mexico. --- US Department of Justice. --- US immigration courts. --- US immigration law. --- US immigration legislation. --- US-Mexico border. --- activism. --- child arrivals. --- child welfare. --- childhood. --- children’s rights. --- citizenship. --- civil society. --- criminal aliens. --- deportability. --- deportation orders. --- deterrence. --- digital media. --- domestic violence. --- due process. --- educational opportunities. --- enforcement. --- human rights. --- illegality. --- immigration courts. --- immigration judge. --- immigration law. --- immigration. --- intersectional approach. --- kinship. --- legal relief. --- legal representation. --- legal status. --- legal systems. --- migrant children. --- migrant youth. --- migration. --- mixed-status families. --- national belonging. --- political subjects. --- repatriation. --- smugglers. --- transnational families. --- unaccompanied minors. --- underclass. --- undocumented immigrant. --- undocumented immigrants. --- youth advocacy.

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Emigration and immigration --- Immigrant children --- Transnationalism