The Impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Surveillance Technology on the Well-being of the Children of Immigrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirian G Martinez-Aranda (0000-0003-1253-1485, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 280-298 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642231216538 |
| OpenAlex | W4388999717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
While existing scholarship examines how Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) electronic monitors (EMs) harm immigrants, less is known about the effects of these surveillance technologies on their children. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations with 39 Latin American immigrant parents monitored via EM between 2015 and 2018 in Los Angeles, California, this study asks: How do ICE's EMs operate as surveillance tools that spill over to impact parent-child relationships and children's well-being as their parent's experience criminalization, punishment, and exclusion? The findings demonstrate that this supposedly "humane" alternative to detention and deportation is responsible for distinct childhood distress. Specifically, EMs impact children's well-being in two ways: by producing fear that parents will be apprehended and deported and by functioning as visual stigmas that signal criminality and engender shame and anger. EMs also deteriorate the quality of children's relationships in two ways: by inflicting stress and fear upon parents and by contracting children's social networks because parents shackled to EMs often become a liability to co-ethnic community members
Criminalization · Criminology · Deportation · Enforcement · Harm · Immigration · Immigration detention · Law enforcement · Political science · Shame · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Separated
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The Criminalization of Immigrants as a Racial Project
Fragmented Ties
Immigration Nation
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments
The anatomy of immigration enforcement
Making Immigrants into Criminals
Safe-zone schools and the academic performance of children in mixed-status households
The fiscal and human costs of immigrant detention and deportation in the United States
Humane” Immigration Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex
Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis
Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements
Toxic Ties
Pobrecitos los Niños
Three Challenges for Teachers in the Era of Trump
Tú No Eres de Aquí
Immigration Enforcement Fear and Anxiety in Latinx High School Students
Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles
Immigration Detention
Toward a Cultural Sociology of Immigration Control
Anchoring work
Extended punishment
Mexican Immigrant Families Under Siege
Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
Street Phenomenology
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk
Multigenerational Punishment
The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
Emotional Challenges of Undocumented Young Adults
Legal Violence
Stagnant immigrant social networks and cycles of exploitation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |