Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Mayan Migrants Speak Out

Luis Argueta

Introduction: Migration, Detention, and Deportation: Dilemmas and Responses

Daniel Kanstroom and M. Brinton Lykes

Part I: The Legal, Administrative, and Political Responses

1. Unhappy Families: The Failings of Immigration Law for Families That Are Not All Alike

David B. Thronson

2. Improving Conditions of Confinement for Immigrant Detainees: Guideposts Toward a Civil System of Civil Detention

Dora B. Schriro

3. You Be the Judge: Who Should Preside Over Immigration Cases, Where, and How?

Denise Noonan Slavin and Dana Leigh Marks

4. Immigration Reform: Will New Political Calculations and New Actors Overcome Enforcement Inertia?

Ali Noorani, Brittney Nystrom, and Maurice Belanger

Part II. Interdisciplinary Research, Advocacy, and Actions for and with Migrants Affected by Detention and Deportation

5. Legal and Social Work Responses to the Detained and Deported: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Actions

Jessica Chicco and Elaine P. Congress

6. Immigrants Facing Detention and Deportation: Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues, Assessment, and Intervention for Individuals and Families

Kalina M. Brabeck, Katherine Porterfield, and Maryanne Loughry

7. Participatory Action Research with Transnational and Mixed-Status Families: Understanding and Responding to Post–9/11 Threats in Guatemala and the United States

M. Brinton Lykes, Erin Sibley, Kalina M. Brabeck, Cristina Hunter, and Yliana Johansen-Méndez

8. Unwelcome Returns: The Alienation of the New American Diaspora in Salvadoran Society

Katie Dingeman-Cerda and Rubén G. Rumbaut

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index