Childhood
Volume 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-27

Challenges to children's independent citizenship: Immigration, family and the state (Review)

Leiter V.* , McDonald J.L. , Jacobson H.T.
  • a Simmons College, United States, Department of Sociology, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, United States
  • b Brandeis University, United States
  • c Brandeis University, United States

Abstract

This article explores how recent federal legislation has increased the extent to which US children's citizenship is dependent upon their parents' citizenship, by contrasting children who are adopted internationally by US citizens and second-generation US children. Two interconnected phenomena are examined: (1) the broader material and theoretical relationships between children's membership in families and the state; and (2) the social, political and economic inequalities that exist between these two groups of child citizens. The article also discusses some practical and theoretical implications of these analyses, regarding the dependence of child citizenship and the multidimensionality of citizenship. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.

Author Keywords

citizenship Children Inequality Immigration Family

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33645026708&doi=10.1177%2f0907568206059978&partnerID=40&md5=3614f2b2d98707bbea163ad49c9f5343
DOI: 10.1177/0907568206059978
ISSN: 09075682
Cited by: 16
Original Language: English