Title Through Iceboxes and Kennels How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (219 p.) Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on Names and Terms -- Introduction -- Part I The State of Affairs -- 1. The Poet, Heroic Mothers, and Cash Cows -- 2. Ordeals and Histories of Immigration -- 3. I Didn't Sign Up for This -- 4. Detention as Licensed Child Care-Texas-Style -- 5. Take the Children. Age Doesn't Matter -- 6. Hiding Boys in Therapeutic Detention -- Part II The Human Costs -- 7. Studying Families, Hearing Their Stories -- 8. Stages of Central American Immigration -- 9. Stress, Trauma, and Children's Development 10. I Need to Tell My Story, Too -- 11. Sleepless Under the Bridge in El Paso -- 12. A Mother's Doubt, a Child's Hunger -- 13. Sufrir, Sufrimiento, and Hallucinating the Invisible Killer Girl -- 14. Four Generations of Mothers and Daughters -- 15. All That Comes After -- Acknowledgments -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index Summary Through Iceboxes and Kennels informs readers about lesser discussed issues in immigration reform. Luis H. Zayas introduces the history and politics of the systems of immigration enforcement and of detention centers operated by private prison companies growing rich by using penal methods on infants, toddlers, children, and mothers. Featuring stories told by children and parents, the book describes government decisions, at the federal and state levels, that vilified and hurt children and parents. It analyzes the stages of migration from Central America and dissects the damaging effects on childr Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Immigrant families -- Government policy -- United States Noncitizen children -- Government policy -- United States Noncitizen detention centers -- United States -- History Detention of persons -- United States Unaccompanied refugee children -- Care -- United States Psychic trauma in children -- United States Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- United States Detention of persons Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Noncitizen detention centers Post-traumatic stress disorder in children Psychic trauma in children SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780197668184 0197668186

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