Department of Social Anthropology, University of Seville. Doctors Talent Program (PAIDI-2020), European Social Fund-Junta de Andalucía. C/María de Padilla s/n, 41004, Sevilla, España; Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, Cto. Exterior, C.U., Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Soc Sci Med. 2023 Jun;326:115947. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115947. Epub 2023 May 2.
This paper examines the experiences of adolescents from mixed migratory status families affected by deportation. We analyze the impacts on their mental and emotional health when they are separated from one parent in the United States, forcibly displaced with another to Oaxaca, and experience the consequences of their deportation in Mexico. We use a qualitative and ethnographic methodology. This paper focuses on data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 15 parents who had been deported from the United States and 53 adolescents who moved with them to Mexico. The data was collected between 2018 and 2020. The main findings show the existence of emotions that are sustained in the transnational flow and acquire new nuances upon return. They also show the emergence of new conditions related to family separation, all of which have an impact on the adolescents' well-being and on important areas of their lives, such as education. The research contributes to knowledge in two main ways: 1) it addresses the impacts of parental deportation on the well-being of adolescents in mixed-status families, which have typically focused on children; 2) it studies how parental deportation affects the mental and emotional health of adolescents de facto deported to Mexico, a field still little studied.
本文探讨了受到驱逐影响的移民家庭青少年的经历。我们分析了他们在美国与父母一方分离、被迫与另一方被驱逐到瓦哈卡州以及在墨西哥经历驱逐后果时，对其心理和情感健康的影响。我们采用定性和民族志方法。本文重点介绍了对 15 名被美国驱逐出境的父母和 53 名随父母移民到墨西哥的青少年进行半结构化访谈和焦点小组的结果。数据收集于 2018 年至 2020 年期间。主要发现表明，存在着在跨国流动中持续存在并在返回时获得新细微差别的情绪。它们还显示出与家庭分离有关的新情况的出现，所有这些情况都对青少年的幸福感和生活的重要领域（如教育）产生影响。这项研究主要通过以下两种方式做出贡献：1）它探讨了父母被驱逐对混合身份家庭青少年幸福感的影响，这些研究通常侧重于儿童；2）它研究了父母被驱逐对事实上被驱逐到墨西哥的青少年的心理和情感健康的影响，这一领域仍鲜有人研究。
