Cecilia Menjívar

TL;DR: The authors examines the effects of uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept of liminality and Susan Coutin's "legal nonexistence."

TL;DR: How Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws is analyzed to expose how the criminalization of immigrants at the federal, state, and local levels is not only exclusionary but also generates violent effects for individual immigrants and their families, affecting everyday lives and long-term incorporation processes.

TL;DR: This paper assess the literature on domestic violence among immigrant women in major receiving countries so as to begin delineating a framework to explain how immigrant-specific factors exacerbate the already vulnerable position of immigrants in domestic violence situations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify three immigrant-specific factors that affect immigrants' perceptions of crime and the police, i.e., a bifocal lens, that is, the immigrants' former experiences with crime and their hom-lands' justice system; contacts with U.S. immigration officials; and the social networks through which they learn what to expect in the United States from police authorities, as well as when and where to expect criminal activity.

TL;DR: A review of the emerging literature on transnational parenthood, concentrating on six themes: gender, care arrangements, legislation, class, communication and moralities, is presented in this paper.