Transaction Search Form: please type in any of the fields below.
Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
Time: 3:23 am
Time: 3:23 am
Results for illegal immigrants (arizona)
3 results foundAuthor: Southwest Institute for Research on Women, College of Lopaz, Tomas Title: Left Back: The Impact of SB 1070 on Arizona's Youth Summary: In April 2010, the State of Arizona passed SB 1070, a law designed to reduce the size of Arizona’s undocumented immigrant population through aggressive state enforcement of federal immigration laws. Its passage sparked worldwide controversy and debate. It also led to lawsuits challenging the law’s constitutionality, and as a result, on July 28, 2010, one day before the law was scheduled to go into effect, a federal district court enjoined the law. This decision was subsequently upheld by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a final appeal of the decision is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not yet decided whether it will hear the case. Although SB 1070 was never actually fully implemented, there is no question that it has had real effects on the state. Most attention to date has focused on the legislation’s impact on Arizona’s economy. This report focuses on a different type of impact – one that may be less tangible but has equally serious implications for the future of the state: SB 1070’s impact on youth. Based on over 70 interviews in seven different schools in Pima County, this report summarizes the perspectives of teachers, parents, and students themselves on how young people have been impacted by the law’s passage. The report’s findings reveal a disturbing picture of youth destabilized, disillusioned, and disadvantaged by the passage of SB 1070. Their communities have been frayed by the departure of family members and friends. Their educations have been undermined by, among other factors, decreased school enrollments and the distress left in the wake of those departures. Many young people and their families also maintain a powerful mistrust of the public institutions around them, especially police, but also often extending to schools. Details: Tucson: University of Arizona, Bacon Immigration Law and Policy program, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2011. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/left_back.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/left_back.pdf Shelf Number: 123438 Keywords: Children of Illegal ImmigrantsIllegal Immigrants (Arizona) |
Author: Rabin, Nina Title: Disappearing Parents: A Report on Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System Summary: Quiet, slow motion tragedies unfold every day in immigration detention centers throughout the country, as parents caught up in immigration enforcement are separated from their young children and disappear into the detention system. If no relative is identified who can take the children at the time of an immigrant parent's apprehension, the children may be placed in state custody and find themselves in foster homes, abruptly unable to communicate with their parents or even know where their parents are. If parents choose to accept their deportation, they risk being forever separated from their children, since their children will likely be unable to accompany them so long as they remain in state custody. If parents choose instead to fight their deportation, they often remain detained for months or even years, greatly complicating efforts to reunify as a family even if they are eventually successful in their case against deportation. Details: Tucson: Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, 2011. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/disappearing_parents_report_final.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/disappearing_parents_report_final.pdf Shelf Number: 123439 Keywords: Children of Illegal ImmigrantsIllegal Immigrants (Arizona)Immigrant DetentionImmigrationImmigration Enforcement |
Author: Accardi, Steven Title: "Humanitarian Aid in Never a Crime." A study of one local public's attempt to negotiate rhetorical agency with the state Summary: At its core, this dissertation is a study of how one group of ordinary people attempted to make change in their local and national community by reframing a public debate. Since 1993, over five thousand undocumented migrants have died, mostly of dehydration, while attempting to cross the US/Mexico border. Volunteers for No More Deaths (NMD), a humanitarian group in Tucson, hike the remote desert trails of the southern Arizona desert and provide food, water, and first aid to undocumented migrants in medical distress. They believe that their actions reduce suffering and deaths in the desert. On December 4, 2008, Walt Staton, a NMD volunteer placed multiple one-gallon jugs of water on a known migrant trail, and a Fish and Wildlife officer on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Arivaca, Arizona cited him for littering. Staton refused to pay the fine, believing that he was providing life-saving humanitarian aid, and was taken to court as a result. His trial from June 1-3, 2009 is the main focus of this dissertation. The dissertation begins by tracing the history of the rhetorical marker "illegal" and its role in the deaths of thousands of "illegal" immigrants. Then, it outlines the history of NMD, from its roots in the Sanctuary Movement to its current operation as a counterpublic discursively subverting the state. Next, it examines Staton's trial as a postmodern rhetorical situation, where subjects negotiate their rhetorical agency with the state. Finally, it measures the rhetorical effect of NMD's actions by tracing humanitarian and human rights ideographs in online discussion boards before and after Staton's sentencing. The study finds that despite situational restrictions, as the postmodern critique suggests, subjects are still able to identify and engage with rhetorical opportunities, and in doing so can still subvert the state Details: Phoenix, AZ: Arizona State University, 2011. 192p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed January 16, 2015 at: http://repository.asu.edu/attachments/56796/content/Accardi_asu_0010E_10757.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://repository.asu.edu/attachments/56796/content/Accardi_asu_0010E_10757.pdf Shelf Number: 134414 Keywords: Illegal Immigrants (Arizona)Illegal ImmigrationImmigration EnforcementUndocumented Migrants |