Bullettin n. 1/2011 | ||
June 2011 | ||
Rohrleitner Marion |
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Who We Are: Migration, Gender, and New Forms of Citizenship | ||
in American Quarterly , vol. 63, n. 2, June , 2011 , 419-429 | ||
Placed at the intersection of the immigration and welfare debates, migrant mothers and their children occupy a precarious place between public and private discourse, a position that has been exacerbated by recent challenges in Congress to the right to citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented migrants. The relationship between motherhood and national belonging is historically contested terrain. | ||