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Challenges to Children’s Independent Citizenship

Immigration, family and the state

Valerie Leiter

Simmons College, valerie.leiter{at}simmons.edu

Jennifer Lutzy McDonald

Brandeis University

Heather T. Jacobson

Brandeis University

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.

Key Words: children • citizenship • family • immigration • inequality

Childhood, Vol. 13, No. 1, 11-27 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568206059978
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