Based on interviews with 100 members of mixed‐status families in Los Angeles, California, this article analyzes how U.S. citizen children practice and understand citizenship in the context of punitive laws targeting their loved ones. Participants' narratives of citizenship as privilege, responsibility, and guilt reveal that despite normative conceptions of citizenship as a universally equal status, citizenship intersects with key social markers to determine the contours and inequalities of substantive citizenship. Specifically, U.S. citizens in mixed‐status families make sense of their juridical category when they navigate unrealistic aspirations from relatives, maintain silence about undocumented family members' legal status, manage their fear of family separation through deportation, and take on financial and logistical responsibilities prematurely to help relatives. In each of these ways, family proves to be a key site for the social and relational production of citizenship.

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美国公民的关系法律意识：拉丁美洲混合身份家庭的特权，责任，内，和爱

基于对加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的100个混合身份家庭成员的访谈，本文分析了美国公民儿童在针对亲人的惩罚性法律的背景下如何实践和理解公民身份。参与者对公民的特权，责任和内citizen感的叙述表明，尽管规范性地将公民定义为普遍平等的地位，但公民与重要的社会标志物相交，从而确定了实质性公民的轮廓和不平等。具体来说，混合身份家庭中的美国公民在浏览亲戚的不切实际愿望，对无证家庭成员的法律地位保持沉默，应对因驱逐出境而对家庭分离的恐惧时，会从法律上理解自己的司法类别。并过早承担财务和后勤责任，以帮助亲戚。在每种方式中，家庭被证明是公民身份的社会和关系生产的重要场所。