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Citizenship Disparities, Emily Ryo, Reed Humphrey
Citizenship Disparities, Emily Ryo, Reed Humphrey
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Children In Custody: A Study Of Detained Migrant Children In The United States,, Emily Ryo, Reed Humphrey
Children In Custody: A Study Of Detained Migrant Children In The United States,, Emily Ryo, Reed Humphrey
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Every year, tens of thousands of migrant children are taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities. Many of these children are unaccompanied by parents or relatives when they arrive at the U.S. border. Others who are accompanied by parents or relatives are rendered unaccompanied when U.S. immigration authorities separate them upon apprehension. Together, these minors are called unaccompanied alien children (UACs) and transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), unless and until their immigration cases are resolved or until the children can be placed with a sponsor in the United States pending the adjudication of their …
Less Enforcement, More Compliance: Rethinking Unauthorized Migration, Emily Ryo
Less Enforcement, More Compliance: Rethinking Unauthorized Migration, Emily Ryo
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A common assumption underlying the current public discourse and legal treatment of unauthorized immigrants is that unauthorized immigrants are lawless individuals who will break the law—any law—in search of economic gain. This notion persists despite substantial empirical evidence to the contrary. Drawing on original empirical data, this Article examines unauthorized immigrants and their relationship to the law from a novel perspective to make two major contributions. First, I demonstrate that unauthorized immigrants view themselves and their noncompliance with U.S. immigration law in a manner that is strikingly different from the prevalent view of criminality and lawlessness found in popular and …