The United States and the border
Mexican children’s drawings of family separation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabrielle Oliveira (0000-0001-7160-6593, Boston College, corresponding author), Olivia Barbieri (0000-0003-4273-0872, Boston College), Virginia Alex (Boston College) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 404-425 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20436106211014904 |
| OpenAlex | W3171348816 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
In the current age of border talk, border enforcement, and of draconian policies that further separate and break up families, children who remain in the country of origin are rarely asked what they understand the border and the United States to be like. Media vehicles and academic papers have reported the brutal effects of family separation at the border for children and families. In order to further understand how young children make sense of their feelings of loss and separation psychologists and members of the American Academy of Pediatrics have collected drawings done by children to understand how trauma has manifested in the minds of children during detention and separation. However, another facet of children’s perceptions of the United States, migration and family separation also exist a little farther away from the physical border that divides the U.S. and Mexico. This paper, then, addresses the questions: How do Mexican children in Mexico make sense of their family separation through their drawings? How are children’s drawings and narratives describing how they see and understand the United States? In this paper, we analyze 50 drawings from children in Puebla, Mexico who have one or more parents living in the United States. Data for this paper stems from a 3 year, multi-sited ethnography that spanned New York City and several states in Mexico
Art · Enforcement · Ethnography · Feeling · Narrative · Perception · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Mexican-US Border
Ethnography in/of the World System
Borderlands/La Frontera
Guadalupe in New York
Threshold
Divided by Borders
Here and There’
Children’s perceptions of their experiences in early learning environments
Trees, flowers, prisons, flags
Drawings, Photos, and Performances
US-Mexico Mixed Migration in an Age of Deportation
The Effects of Gendered Immigration Enforcement on Middle Childhood and Schooling
Undocumented Youth Activism as Counter-Spectacle
The strength of family ties
Lynching and the Politics of State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Puebla (1930s-50s)
Visual Methodologies in Qualitative Research
Spectacles of migrant 'illegality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |