Exploring parent-child communication in the context of threat
Immigrant families facing detention and deportation in post-9/11 USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2172246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M B Lykes (0000-0002-6772-8413), Kalina M Brabeck, Cristina J Hunter, Cristina Hunter |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-146 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Community Work & Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668803.2012.752997 |
| OpenAlex | W2031919759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 24 |
This paper explores whether and how documented and undocumented migrant parents communicate with their children about the threats posed by the intensified enforcement of 1996 and 2001 US immigration reforms; whether parents facing potential detention and deportation plan for the care of their children; and whether their children learn from other sources about detention and deportation. The focus of this paper emerged in the context of a multiyear participatory and action research (PAR) process as one effort to understand the multiple meanings and divergent perspectives on parental–child communication that arose among and between participants and coresearchers. The aim is to better understand, in parents' own voices, their embrace of and resistance to direct communication with their children about the threat of deportation. Data are triangulated from in-depth interviews with 18 Central American immigrant coresearchers (Study 1), responses of 132 Latino/a immigrant parents to a survey with open-ended questions (Study 2), and conversations in a series of community meetings and workshops. Findings confirm the importance for advocates, service providers, and researchers to understand migrant parents' decisions about communication within the context of family and community values; gender expectations; lived and psychological experiences of being criminalized; and strategies to manage daily challenges of living without documents while parenting US-citizen children
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Deportation · Enforcement · Focus group · Geography · Immigration · Immigration detention · Participatory action research · Political science · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Family Support in Illness · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Law
The psychosocial impact of detention and deportation on U.S. Migrant children and families
Working with communities responding to violent immigration enforcement
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free
“Families getting separated feels bad”
Sibling relationships among U.S. citizen children of undocumented Mexican parents
Refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants and the experience of parenthood
Sin papeles
No vamos a tapar el sol con un dedo”
Documentation status socialization among Latinx immigrant parents
Documentation Status Socialization as an Ethnic-racial Socialization Dimension
Understanding Family Dynamics in Mixed‐Status Families
Family Experience of Detention for Migratory Reasons
Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’)
Liminal Legality Among Mixed-Status Latinx Families
Forced separations
The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Family Separation Preparedness for Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
El Campo
Resisting White Nationalism Through a Cultural Mentoring Program
Anchoring work
We Can't Say This Won't Happen to Me
Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk
Counseling Latinos and la Familia
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
The Sage Handbook of Action Research
Communication of the Decision to Divorce
Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants
Telling children their ill parent is dying
The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project
Silencing historical trauma
U.S. Deportation Policy, Family Separation, and Circular Migration
All under One Roof
Understanding, Resisting, and Overcoming Oppression
Action Research and Minority Problems
The effects of military-induced separation on family factors and child behavior
Acculturative Stress Among Documented and Undocumented Latino Immigrants in the United States
The Impact of Detention and Deportation on Latino Immigrant Children and Families
Terror, silencing and children
Searching for wages and mothering from Afar
Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States
Conditions for Establishing a System of Fairness
| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |