There are many reasons to delight in Joanna Dreby’s writing. My favorite these days is her commitment to some kind of relational writing. In “How Today’s Immigration Enforcement Policies Impact Children, Families, and Communities: A View from the Ground,” Dreby uses a common social experience (i.e., that couples get divorced) to illustrate a more foreign situation (i.e., that undocumented immigrants get deported). In anticipating her readers’ lack of connection to immigrant families and their simultaneous sympathy for divorced families, Dreby successfully brings everyone […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, immigration, politics