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Immigration Status and Relief Options

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Immigration Status and Relief Options

A Social Worker’s Toolkit for Working With Immigrant Families

(Updated June 2015)

This toolkit provides a basic overview of the dynamics of the U.S. immigration system as it impacts children and families in the child welfare system. The toolkit includes practical appendices with resources for accessing vital documents, facilitating communication between child welfare and immigration legal counsel, and a summary of immigration relief options applicable to youth in care.

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CICW Statement on Immigration Executive Actions

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Policy Briefs & Analyses

CICW Statement on Immigration Executive Actions

A Product of the CICW Law & Policy Committee (May 2015)

In this position statement, the CICW acknowledges its support for the Obama administration’s expanded deferred action programs and outlines the ways in which expanded deferred action can promote the well-being of children in immigrant families.

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Removing Insecurity: How American Children Will Benefit From President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Families Research, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Legal/Law, Research, Resources

Removing Insecurity: How American Children Will Benefit From President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration

Roberto Suro, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, and Stephanie L. Canizales; Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, University of Southern California, and Institute for Immigration, Globalization, & Education, University of California at Los Angeles (April 2015)

This report highlights the potential of President Obama’s proposed Deferred Action to Parents of American Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents program (DAPA) to promote the physical, emotional, and economic well-being of U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrant parents.

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Case Planning for Parents Residing in a Foreign Country

By | Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement, Parenting, Policy Briefs & Analyses, State Policies

Case Planning for Parents Residing in a Foreign Country

Alan J. Dettlaff, PhD & Caitlin O’Grady, MSW (February 2015)

This brief focuses on policies that address case planning for child welfare system-involved parents residing in a foreign country. Parents face multiple barriers to fulfilling case plan objectives when residing abroad, which in turn poses barriers to family reunification. Policies addressing case planning for parents residing in a foreign country aim to facilitate the process through which child welfare agencies and parents can collaborate transnationally in these cases.

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Examining the UAC-DACA Link: New Data Show Child Migrant Crisis Began Before DACA

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Research, Resources, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Examining the UAC-DACA Link: New Data Show Child Migrant Crisis Began Before DACA

Dave Bier, Niskanen Center (February 9, 2015)

This study analyzes newly available data, showing that the massive increase in unaccompanied alien children (UACs) began before DACA was even announced in June 2012.

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Case Planning and Service Delivery for Families with Parents and Legal Guardians Who Are Detained or Deported By Immigration Enforcement

By | Immigration Enforcement, Practice, Resources, Social Workers

Case Planning and Service Delivery for Families with Parents and Legal Guardians Who Are Detained or Deported By Immigration Enforcement

Information Memorandum

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (February 2015)

This Memorandum provides information to child welfare practitioners, including information on best practice considerations, to assist them in addressing the needs of children and families where parents are at risk of, or are, being detained or deported.

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Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You: An Examination of the United States’ Denial of Asylum to Young Central American Males Who Refuse Membership in Transnational Criminal Gangs

By | Child Well-Being, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Research, Resources, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You: An Examination of the United States’ Denial of Asylum to Young Central American Males Who Refuse Membership in Transnational Criminal Gangs

Lauren E. Sullivan, 2014 J.D. Candidate at Duquesne University School of Law (Winter 2014)

This article explains U.S. asylum law and the barriers that applicants face in obtaining grants of asylum under the current law, followed by an explanation of how applicants, especially Central American males, and their representatives can pursue successful asylum claims in U.S. immigration courts and federal courts.

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A Guide to the Immigration Accountability Executive Action

By | Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy

A Guide to the Immigration Accountability Executive Action

American Immigration Council (November 30, 2014)

This guide provides an analysis of President Obama’s plan for immigration reform, including an overview of the Deferred Action for Parents of American and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program and information on the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

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States and Status: A Study of Geographical Disparities for Immigrant Youth

By | Federal Policy, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Relief, Law & Policy, Legal/Law, Research, Resources, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), State Policies, Unaccompanied Minors, Unaccompanied Minors Research

States and Status: A Study of Geographical Disparities for Immigrant Youth

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 46(266) (November 2014)

Written by Laila Hlass, this article discusses patterns in the number of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status applicants across states and over time.

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Migration and Child Well-Being: At the Border of Immigration and Child Welfare

By | Child Well-Being, CICW Presentations, Immigrant Youth, Immigration Enforcement, Legal/Law, Social Work, Unaccompanied Minors

Migration and Child Well-Being: At the Border of Immigration and Child Welfare

Presented by Thomas Crea, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work; Sunny Harris Rome, George Mason University; Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, Stockton College; and Alan Dettlaff, Jane Addams College of Social Work (October 2014)
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