{"id":20708,"date":"2011-04-27T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:51:37","slug":"immigrants-raising-children-undocumented-parents-and-their-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/04\/27\/immigrants-raising-children-undocumented-parents-and-their-young-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants Raising Children: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042711\/2011_04_27_yoshikawa.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042711\/2011_04_27_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/sites\/all\/files\/0871549867.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"immigrants raising children\" \/>It&#8217;s been just over a year since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the U.S.&#8217;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&#8217; 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, &#8220;Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children,&#8221; 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 &#8220;isolated social networks,&#8221; and suffer from poor working conditions.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, professor of education at Harvard University&#8217;s Graduate School of Education, author of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been just over a year since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the U.S.&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}