@article{718912,
      recid = {718912},
      author = {Zayas, Luis H.,},
      title = {Forgotten citizens : deportation, children, and the making  of American exiles and orphans /},
      pages = {xvi, 272 pages ;},
      abstract = {"The United States Constitution insures that all persons  born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the  law. But in today's America, the US-born children of  undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not  enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that  they belong. Children in mixed-status families are  forgotten in the loud and discordant immigration debate.  They live under the constant threat that their parents will  suddenly be deported. Their parents face impossible  decisions: make their children exiles or make them orphans.  In Forgotten Citizens, Luis Zayas holds a mirror to a  nation in crisis, providing invaluable perspectives for  anyone brave enough to look. Zayas draws on his extensive  work as a mental health clinician and researcher to present  the most complete picture yet of how immigration policy  subverts children's rights, harms their mental health, and  leaves lasting psychological trauma. We meet Virginia, a  kindergartener so terrified of revealing her family's  status that she took her father's warning don't say  anything so literally she hadn't spoken in school in over a  year. We hear from Brandon, exiled with his family to  Mexico, who worries that his father will die in the desert  trying to immigrate again. Children like Virginia and  Brandon have been silenced and their stories largely  overlooked in the broader debates about immigration policy.  As this book demonstrates, we can no longer afford to  ignore them"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718912},
}