Everyday Illegal by Joanna Dreby - Paperback - University of California Press

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked.

Everyday Illegal by Joanna Dreby - Paperback - University of California Press

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Expanding Geographies of Deportability: How Immigration Enforcement at the Local Level Affects Undocumented and Mixed‐Status Families - Valdivia - 2019 - Law & Policy - Wiley Online Library

Living Together, Living Apart

The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants - Dreby - 2023 - Law & Society Review - Wiley Online Library

Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed‐Status Families - Abrego - 2019 - Law & Society Review - Wiley Online Library

Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families: Dreby, Joanna: 9780520283404: : Books

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care.

Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars [eBook]