Expose and Disrupt
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (September 24, 2024)
This guide reviews how state Public Records Act (PRA) requests can be used to advocate against immigration enforcement.
Immigrant Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Practices with Immigrants: A Training Series for Community Practitioners and Organizations
Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, NMSU School of Social Work (September 2024)
This 5-module online asynchronous, self-paced course explores how service organizations and practitioners can implement policies and practices to increase inclusivity of immigrant families, and how trauma-informed practice can be tailored to address the unique experiences of immigrant families. It also includes discussion of a model for implementing immigrant specialist navigators within organizations. 6 free cultural social work CEUs available. Learn more here: https://cimmcw.org/immigrant-inclusivity-training/ or enroll at the link above.
Kids in Care: Unaccompanied Children in Federal Government Custody
Lauren Heidbrink & Sarah Diaz, Loyola University Chicago (September 2024)
This report details findings and recommendations from an 18-month interdisciplinary study that explored the conditions of care for unaccompanied children in federal custody.
Protecting Immigrant Children: A Public Health of Consequence
Farzana Kapadia, American Journal of Public Health (February 21, 2024)
This article explores how policies, practices, and anti-immigrant rhetoric have eroded the safety and well-being of immigrant children and their families and provides recommendations to address these negative impacts.
Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance
Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, UCLA School of Law (June 2024)
This white paper explores two misconceptions: 1) that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border began under the Trump administration; and 2) that they ended with the election of President Biden, arguing that family separation has been a longtime feature of CBP enforcement, and continues today.
Issue Brief: Insights from OIG’s Work on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Efforts to Care for Unaccompanied Children
Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (March 7, 2024)
This issue brief provides insights from the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) oversight of ORR’s Unaccompanied Children Program.
Newcomer Immigrant Children’s Access to K-12 Education
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) (July 31, 2024)
This policy brief provides background on policies and issues impacting immigrant children’s access to K-12 education in the U.S.
Employment-Based Immigration Visas for DACA Recipients
Krsna Avila & Dan Berger, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (July 31, 2024)
This practice advisory reviews common employment-based visa options for DACA recipients.
Advancing Protections for Unaccompanied Children
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) (August 15, 2024)
This guide is a comprehensive resource on issues impacting unaccompanied children and the importance of advancing protections for this vulnerable group.
Sin Padres, Sin Papeles
Stephanie L. Canizales, University of California Press (August 6, 2024)
This book explores the experiences of unaccompanied youth from Central America and Mexico, navigating life and the transition to adulthood in the U.S.
