Project Director

Groh, Rita Boyajiah

Department Examiner

Meece, Darrell

Department

Dept. of Education

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Americans are concerned about immigration politics and how to handle the migration of immigrants into the United States, especially those from Latinx countries who immigrate illegally. In response, the United States government has formed detention centers to house the children of these illegal immigrants. While the immediate safety and developmental appropriateness of current separation practices are of concern, few have considered what the long-term developmental and transgenerational impacts on Latinx immigrant children, held within these detention centers, will be. This thesis concludes that the negative physical, emotional, and psychological impacts both in the short and long terms are expected to be significant though without continued exploration are currently unmeasurable.

Acknowledgments

Dr. Rita Boyajiah Groh Lecturer of Political Science Thesis Director Dr. Darrell Meece Professor of Education Department Examiner

Degree

B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Date

5-2021

Subject

Child development; Immigration enforcement; Psychic trauma in children

Keyword

child development; detention; immigration; trauma

Discipline

American Politics | Developmental Psychology

Document Type

Theses

Extent

[v], 106 leaves.

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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