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Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Announces Sweeping New Actions to Manage Regional Migration

By | Federal Policy, Immigration Enforcement, Law & Policy, Law/Policy Highlight, Legal/Law

Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Announces Sweeping New Actions to Manage Regional Migration

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (April 27, 2023)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced new measures to manage migration following the end of Title 42, including some punitive and some beneficial measures.

Care or Control? Reexamining the immigration system in place for youth and children

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Foster Care, Immigrant Youth, Practice Highlight, Social Work, Social Workers, Unaccompanied Minors

Care or Control? Reexamining the immigration system in place for youth and children

Migration Center, University of South Carolina (May 5, 2023)

This webinar reviews key policies, programs, and services that impact migrant youth and their families, including conditions in countries of origin, pathways from detention to sponsor release, community integration, and deportation.

Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ORR Foster Care: Community Level Facilitators of Adjustment Identified by Service Providers

By | Research Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ORR Foster Care: Community Level Facilitators of Adjustment Identified by Service Providers

Kerri Evans, Robert G. Hasson III, Samantha Teixeira, Virginia Fitchett, & Thomas M. Crea; Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (July 17, 2022)

This study explores the community-level factors that facilitate the adjustment of unaccompanied immigrant children placed ORR foster care.

Does the Census Miss the Native-Born Children of Immigrant Mothers? Evidence from State-Level Undercount by Race and Hispanic Status

By | Research Highlight, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Does the Census Miss the Native-Born Children of Immigrant Mothers? Evidence from State-Level Undercount by Race and Hispanic Status

Janna E. Johnson, Population Research and Policy Review (April 20, 2021)

This article examines how U.S.-born children of immigrant mothers are undercounted in the census due to factors like language barriers, fear of deportation, and cultural stigmas, impacting resource allocation and political representation.

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