Suffer the Little Children
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Author_Anita Casavantes Bradford
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Central American children
children's rights
Cold War
Cuba
Cuban Children's Program
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Geopolitics of compassion
humanitarianism
Hungarian refugee minors
Jewish child refugees
Mexican migrant children
migrant children
refugee resettlement
Southeast Asian refugee minors
U.S. foreign policy
U.S. immigration and refugee policy
unaccompanied child migration
unaccompanied refugee minors
unauthorized alien children
Vietnam
war orphans
World War Two
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- ISBN 9781469667638
- Weight: 266g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this affecting and innovative global history—starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border—Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War-era initiatives, such policy grew into a more broadly conceived set of programs that claim universal humanitarian goals. But the cold reality is that decisions about which endangered minors are allowed entry to the United States have always been and continue to be driven primarily by a "geopolitics of compassion" that imagines these children essentially as tools of political statecraft.
Even after the creation of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program in 1980, the federal government has failed to see migrant children as individual rights-bearing subjects. The claims of these children, especially those who are poor, nonwhite, and non-Christian, continue to be evaluated not in terms of their unique circumstances but rather in terms of broader implications for migratory flows from their homelands. This book urgently demonstrates that U.S. policy must evolve in order to ameliorate the desperate needs of unaccompanied children.
Even after the creation of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program in 1980, the federal government has failed to see migrant children as individual rights-bearing subjects. The claims of these children, especially those who are poor, nonwhite, and non-Christian, continue to be evaluated not in terms of their unique circumstances but rather in terms of broader implications for migratory flows from their homelands. This book urgently demonstrates that U.S. policy must evolve in order to ameliorate the desperate needs of unaccompanied children.
Anita Casavantes Bradford, author of The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962, is associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine.
