For 30 years, U.S. immigration policy has increasingly focused on enforcement. This article goes beyond cataloging the harms of such policies to document the processes by which they become more or less salient in the lives of children of immigrants over time. In-depth interviews with 86 young adults raised in New York show that enforcement policies shape children's lives either through lived experiences of enforcement episodes or through diffuse fears arising from indirect threats. Qualitative analysis of narratives of (a) deportations post-incarceration, (b) removals, (c) arrests and detentions (d) direct threats, and (e) diffuse fears identifies characteristics related to each that may affect children even after they age into adulthood.

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移民子女执法事件的后果

30 年来，美国移民政策越来越注重执法。本文不仅对此类政策的危害进行了分类，还记录了随着时间的推移，这些政策在移民子女的生活中或多或少变得越来越重要的过程。对在纽约长大的 86 名年轻人的深入访谈表明，执法政策通过执法事件的亲身经历或通过间接威胁引起的弥散恐惧来塑造儿童的生活。对 (a) 监禁后驱逐，(b) 遣返，(c) 逮捕和拘留，(d) 直接威胁，以及 ​​(e) 弥漫性恐惧的叙述的定性分析确定了与每个相关的特征，这些特征可能会影响儿童，甚至在他们成年之后成年。