Becoming DACAmented

Gonzales, Roberto G.; Terriquez, Veronica; Ruszczyk, Stephen P.

doi:10.1177/0002764214550288

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“…Importantly, DACA improved employment opportunities for some undocumented youth (Gonzales, Terriquez, and Ruszczyk 2014), while the California DREAM Act made college more affordable for undocumented students. Together, this federal directive and state legislation likely facilitate continuous enrolment, and consequently degree completion, among these immigrant students.…”

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Dreams Delayed: Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Community College Students

Terriquez¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Community colleges in the United States (US) remain relatively accessible to students from immigrant families. However, undocumented immigrant students encounter difficulties in staying continuously enrolled in community colleges because they contend with multiple disadvantages. These students often ‘stop out’, or withdraw with intentions to return. This mixed-methods study explores the non-continuous enrolment of students from immigrant families. Drawing on survey data from a randomly selected sample of community college students in California, logistic regression results indicate that although the children of immigrants exhibit an ‘immigrant advantage’ with respect to staying continuously enrolled in community college, those who remain undocumented stop out at disproportionately high rates. Through a comparative analysis of 80 semi-structured interviews with undocumented immigrants and US citizens, I outline the multidimensional ways in which a precarious legal status interferes with students' postsecondary schooling. Specifically, I suggest that undocumented students' legal status often leads them to stop out due to corresponding financial hardship, sub-standard employment options, the precarious legal status of other undocumented family members who rely on their earnings, and excessive stress. This study offers evidence that the condition of ‘illegality’ functions as a ‘master status’ that has an overpowering effect on students' college pathways.

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Dreams Delayed: Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Community College Students

Terriquez¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…An estimated 200,000 children had parents who were eligible for DACA at the time the policy was announced (2). Although some studies have found that DACA recipients have higher rates of employment (20–22) and improved health outcomes (23, 24), the intergenerational effects of DACA are largely unknown.…”

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Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

Hainmueller

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Martén

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The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents’ unauthorized immigration status on the health of their U.S. citizen children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted temporary protection from deportation to more than 780,000 unauthorized immigrants. We used Medicaid claims data from Oregon and exploited the quasi-random assignment of DACA eligibility among mothers with birthdates close to the DACA age qualification cutoff. Mothers’ DACA eligibility significantly decreased adjustment and anxiety disorder diagnoses among their children. Parents’ unauthorized status is thus a substantial barrier to normal child development and perpetuates health inequalities through the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.

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“…Every nine out of 10 respondents of the NURP study reported receiving assistance with their DACA application from community organizations, professional attorneys, and individuals within their network. 50 Elaborating on credible sources of support can reduce fraud and scamming by notarios. Interested individuals, eligible or ineligible, can be informed on how to become leaders, activists, and supporters of the legalization of others to strengthen trust in the program.…”

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“…NURP researchers found that those who were most engaged with civic organizations were most likely to apply for and successfully obtain DACA. 52 Having already developed ties to immigrant communities, organizations can better cater outreach efforts in the wake of a new legalization program.…”

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The DACA Era and the Continuous Legalization Work of the US Immigrant-Serving Community

Kerwin¹,

Suro²,

Thorman³

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governmental and community-based organizations (NGOs and CBOs) and their public and private partners to build capacity and to prepare to implement a large legalization program. Over a three-month period, the CMS team interviewed more than 40 agencies and 66 individuals, and intensively analyzed the work of five communities on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, expanded DACA (known as DACA-plus), and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). The study assessed the progress of the NGO/ CBO community in building capacity to promote maximum participation in DACA, to enlist DACA beneficiaries in service, advocacy and community organizing work, and to prepare for a future large-scale legalization program. The study covers the period from DACA's inception in 2012 to the eve of the presidential election.The prospects for any kind of legalization in the short term have darkened with the election of Donald J. Trump, and the prospects for widespread and potentially draconian enforcement actions have heightened. Although this project was commissioned, conceived, and executed with a legalization program in mind, its findings on the capacity of the immigrant-serving sector remain timely and relevant. This report presents a narrative of how the sector developed over the past four years and assesses its capabilities. As such, it presents a valuable catalogue of assets as the sector considers how it will respond to the challenges ahead. Building greater capacity to serve immigrant communities has become an even more urgent task since the presidential election. Recommendations formulated for a potential legalization program can serve as a starting point for the development of strategies to contend with the Trump administration's immigration and refugee policies. FindingsWorking within the existing statutory and administrative frameworks of federal policy, the immigrant-serving sector has achieved steady and significant gains in legal status for large numbers of immigrants over the past four years. These gains, which have been the result of an ongoing, intentional process of growth and professionalization in the immigrant-serving sector, have constituted a de facto legalization program. While most communities across the country lack sufficient capacity even to meet existing needs, substantial and varied capacity has been built over the last four years and well-tested models are available to expand capacity if the resources become available. CMS Report February 2017 2Strengthening and expanding existing capacities in the immigrant-serving sector would be: 1) the most efficient preparation for a large-scale legalization program; 2) an effective antidote to the ravages of draconian enforcement policies; and 3) an important step in promoting the full participation and integration of immigrants in our nation's life.When the DACA program was launched on June 15, 2012, many participants in the immigrantserving sector rose to the challenge by redirecting staff, physical assets,...

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Becoming DACAmented

Cited by 217 publications

References 44 publications

Dreams Delayed: Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Community College Students

Dreams Delayed: Barriers to Degree Completion among Undocumented Community College Students

Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

The DACA Era and the Continuous Legalization Work of the US Immigrant-Serving Community

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