Adolescents de facto deported in Oaxaca, Mexico: Mental and emotional health impacts

Marta Rodríguez-Cruz

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 326, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Deportation; Mixed immigration status families; Adolescents; de facto deportation; Return; Mental and emotional health; United States; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115947

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