Apr 27 2011
Immigrants Raising Children: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children
It’s been just over a year since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the U.S.’s most draconian anti-immigrant bill, S. B. 1070. Since then, the barrage of anti-immigrant legislation across the country does not seem to have slowed. Federal and state-specific efforts earlier this year against citizenship birthright as enshrined in the Constitution were the latest attacks on immigrants by Republicans. There are currently 4 million children who were born in the U.S. but whose parents are undocumented immigrants. These American citizens face unique challenges because of their parents’ immigration status. The current anti-immigrant laws compound existing societal scapegoating to undermine the well-being of these children. A new book by community psychologist and Harvard Education professor, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, documents their lives. The book, “Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children,” is based on a three-year study of American children born to immigrants from a variety of national and ethnic backgrounds. What he found was that undocumented parents tend to avoid state and city programs and authorities, are part of “isolated social networks,” and suffer from poor working conditions.
GUEST: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, professor of education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, author of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children
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