It is a distressingly Kafkaesque path to citizenship in which children are responsible for securing their own lawyers, and are often required to display physical injuries to prove themselves worthy of assistance.
This book-length essay is a meditation on this crisis viewed through the lens of the survey questions, the most vital of which, “Why did you come to the United States?”, often determines the outcome of the child’s bid for citizenship: the more terrifying the circumstance, the better the chances. She began this work during an unprecedented surge in the number of minors crossing the border. From 2014 to 2015, Mexican writer Luiselli ( The Story of My Teeth) volunteered as an interpreter with an immigration court in New York, where she administered a 40-question survey to unaccompanied and undocumented minors who fled Central America for the United States.
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