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Nov 16
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State Immigration Enforcement Policies

By | Deportation, Detention, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight, Resources, Topics

State Immigration Enforcement Policies

Julia Gelatt, Heather Koball, Hamutal Bernstein, Carmaine Runes, Eleanor Pratt, Urban Institute & National Center for Children in Poverty (May 2017)

This report from Urban Institute and the National Center for Children in Poverty found that expanding state immigration enforcement policies increased material hardship (such as eviction or difficulty paying for basic household expenses) in immigrant households with children. Although the policies target unauthorized immigrant populations, lawful immigrant households also experienced more material hardship in states with expanded enforcement, suggesting a broader climate of fear created by such policies.

Nov 14
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Settling In: A Profile of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States

By | Immigrant Families Research, Research

Settling In: A Profile of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States

Julia Gelatt and Jie Zong, Migration Policy Institute (November 2018)

This fact sheet provides an overview of the characteristics of the estimated 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States. It examines these immigrants’ countries of origin, U.S. destinations, length of U.S. residence, educational attainment and English proficiency, employment, income, and home ownership. And it includes a section on the children, most U.S. born, who have an unauthorized immigrant parent.

Nov 01
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How Federal and State Food Stamps Programs Affect Recent Immigrant Families in the United States

By | Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Relief, Research, Research Highlight, Topics

How Federal and State Food Stamps Programs Affect Recent Immigrant Families in the United States

Heather Koball, National Center for Children in Poverty (January 29, 2018)

Children of immigrants are at greater risk of going without enough food than the children of native-born citizens – even when income levels and other economic factors are taken into account. Immigrant families often experience economic hardships, of course, but their food insecurity may also be traced to U.S. federal and state policies that make some immigrants ineligible for food stamps.

Nov 01
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Number of U.S.-Born Babies with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents Has Fallen Since 2007

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Number of U.S.-Born Babies with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents Has Fallen Since 2007

Jeffrey S. Passel, D’Vera Cohn and John Gramlich, Pew Research Center (November 1, 2018)

About 250,000 babies were born to unauthorized immigrant parents in the United States in 2016, the latest year for which information is available, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. This represents a 36% decrease from a peak of about 390,000 in 2007.

Oct 29
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Immigration policy, practices, and procedures: The impact on the mental health of Mexican and Central American youth and families.

By | Child Well-Being, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Immigrant Youth, Research, Research Highlight, Topics, Trauma

Immigration policy, practices, and procedures: The impact on the mental health of Mexican and Central American youth and families

Stephanie Torres, Catherine Santiago, Katherine Walts, Maryse Richards, American Psychological Association (October 2018)

This paper reviews current immigration policies for arriving Mexican and Central American immigrants and links to mental health among documented and undocumented immigrant families and youth.

Oct 19
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The High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation

By | Child Maltreatment, Child Well-Being, Detention, Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Families Research, Research, Research Highlight, Topics

The High Costs of the Proposed Flores Regulation

Philip E. Wolgin, Center for American Progress (October 19, 2018)

The Center for American Progress estimates that, over a decade, the proposed rule to dissolve the Flores Settlement, which would allow the Trump administration to indefinitely incarcerate children, would cost DHS slightly more than $2 billion at the low end, and as much as $12.9 billion at the high end.

 

Sep 27
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Endangered mothers or ‘anchor babies’? Migration motivators for pregnant unaccompanied Central American teens

By | Highlighted Resources, Immigrant Youth, Research, Research Highlight, Topics

Endangered mothers or ‘anchor babies’? Migration motivators for pregnant unaccompanied Central American teens

Susan Schmidt, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies (September, 27, 2018)

As politicians grapple with global migration policies, traditionally sympathetic populations such as pregnant migrant women now evoke suspicion and fear, evident in US usage of the disparaging term ‘anchor babies.’ Using secondary interview data, this article compares the migration motivations of 11 pregnant unaccompanied teens from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala with the ‘anchor baby’ assumptions.

Sep 25
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Applying a Community Violence Framework to Understand the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Threat on Latino Children

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Applying a Community Violence Framework to Understand the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Threat on Latino Children

Gabriela Barajas- Gonzalez, Cecilia Ayón, Franco Torres, Society for Research in Child Development (September 25, 2018)

This paper draws on literature from psychology, sociology, medicine, political science, social work, and developmental psychology to outline how the anti-immigrant climate in the U.S. and the threat of immigration enforcement activities in everyday spaces are experienced by some Latino children as psychological violence.

Sep 18
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Family Consequences of Detention/Deportation: Effects on Finances, Health, and Well-Being

By | Child Well-Being, Deportation, Detention, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Trauma

Family Consequences of Detention/Deportation: Effects on Finances, Health, and Well-Being

Samantha Artiga and Barbara Lyons, Henry J Kaiser Foundation (September 18, 2018)

This report builds on a previous report that documented the impact of the Trump administration immigration policy environment on immigrant families’ health and wellbeing by exploring the direct impacts of detention and deportation on family finances, health, and well-being.

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