This policy brief provides recommendations to improve the humane and efficient reception and processing of unaccompanied children and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in light of the anticipated end of Title 42.
This research looked at pandemic related economic hardships such as food and housing insecurity among families with young children by race, ethnicity, and nativity, finding that Latinx and immigrant families experienced some of the greatest increases in these hardships.
This study explored the impacts of expanding Medicaid pregnancy coverage to undocumented immigrant women in California, finding increased insurance coverage and improved birth outcomes.
This report documents the shortcomings of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s “Significant Incident Reports” and provides recommendations on how ORR can overhaul this system in order to better protect the mental and physical health and safety of unaccompanied children.
This research brief explores how U.S.-born children with immigrant parents were affected by changes in access to SNAP after the 1996 welfare reform.
This report, informed by the perspectives of 32 unaccompanied young adults, contains policy recommendations to improve the system that receives unaccompanied children in the U.S.
This research explored immigrant children’s mental health and impacts of various neighborhood and family contexts.
This policy brief discusses the state of immigrant children’s eligibility and coverage by Medicaid and CHIP in 2019.
This fact sheet provides a summary and background on the proposed LIFT the Bar Act and highlights how this legislation would positively impact children in immigrant families.
This article discusses the developmental impacts of parent-child separation and provides an evaluation of group, school-based, and community-based interventions for children and youth affected by parent–child separation.
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