This study describes how recent immigrant policy changes and news are impacting the lives of Latina/o immigrant parents raising adolescent children.
View StudyThis report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Read ReportThis study investigates the relationship between immigrant parent legal status and academic performance among U.S.-born children, ages 7–10.
Read ArticleThe author explores and explains the short-term and long-term impact of deportation and immigration enforcement on children in Mexican immigrant families.
Read ArticleA discussion of how childhood experiences related to deportations have a profound effect on children’s current lives and on their future opportunities.
Read the ArticleResearchers at NCCP, Urban Institute, and Migration Policy Institute looked at how the changing immigration policy environment is likely to affect immigrant families. Specifically, the report examines whether immigrant families living in states that ramped up enforcement of federal policy saw any changes in their material hardship, or how often fear of deportation affected their ability to pay for essentials (such as rent, utilities, or food).
View the ReportThis study explores the mental health impact of parental detention and deportation on U.S. citizen children as potentially traumatic events that may cause post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress.
Download the PublicationThe Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Supporting Child Development and Improving Family Economic Security project investigated the design and the of approaches to alleviating poverty that address the needs of low-income parents and children. The project examined programs that deliberately combine services that are intended to support both child development and parental economic security.
Read the ReportThe “10 Characteristics of Preschool-Age Children” interactive data tool generates charts and tables with indicators on children ages 3 to 5 for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and metropolitan and micropolitan areas, using data from the American Community Survey (ACS). It presents data on groups of preschool-age children defined by their school enrollment, their family income, and their parents’ nativity.
Read MoreFrom August 1, 2017 to August 20, 2017, Tom K. Wong of the University of California, San Diego; United We Dream (UWD); the National Immigration Law Center (NILC); and the Center for American Progress fielded a national survey to further analyze the economic, employment, educational, and societal experiences of DACA recipients. This is the largest study to date of DACA recipients with a sample size of 3,063 respondents in 46 states as well as the District of Columbia.
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