Immigration Enforcement, Parent–Child Separations, and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees

Amuedo‐Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan; Puttitanun, Thitima

doi:10.1007/s13524-015-0431-0

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“…Tougher immigration enforcement associated with deportation is also a cause of family separation (Amuedo‐Dorantes & Arenas‐Arroyo, ; Amuedo‐Dorantes, Pozo, & Puttitanum, ). For example, Amuedo‐Dorantes and Arenas‐Arroyo () found that increases in immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2015 raised the likelihood that undocumented mothers lived without their spouses by 20% and the likelihood that Hispanic U.S.‐born children lived without their parents by 19%.…”

Section: Immigrant Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change

Smock

Schwartz

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics: (a) marriage and remarriage, (b) divorce, (c) cohabitation, (d) fertility, (e) same‐gender unions, (f) immigrant families, and (g) children's living arrangements. Throughout, the authors review both overall trends and patterns as well as those by social class and race–ethnicity. The authors discuss major strands of recent research, emphasizing emerging themes and promising directions. They close with a summary of central patterns and trends and conclude that recent trends are not as uniform as they tended to be in earlier decades, making the description of family change increasingly complex.

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Section: Immigrant Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change

Smock

Schwartz

2020

J of Marriage and Family

217

167

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“…Recent studies tend to use the state‐local approach to take advantage of the recent changes in state and local immigration laws. In addition to undocumented immigrants’ labor market outcomes, various other outcomes have been examined, such as the interstate migration patterns of undocumented immigrants and natives, the labor market outcomes of natives, and the educational outcomes and living arrangements of the children of undocumented immigrants (Amuedo‐Dorantes & Arenas‐Arroyo, ; Amuedo‐Dorantes & Bansak, , ; Amuedo‐Dorantes & Pozo, ; Amuedo‐Dorantes, Pozo, & Puttitanun, ; Bohn, Lofstrom, & Raphael, , ; Good, ; Hoekstra & Orozco‐Aleman, ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self‐Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants

Wang¹

2019

J Policy Anal Manage

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As the U.S. government has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigration in recent years, an important question to ask is how undocumented immigrants react to the stricter enforcement of immigration laws. This paper seeks to answer whether they increasingly choose self‐employment in an effort to avoid apprehension and subsequent deportation. To guard against endogeneity bias that might stem from increased enforcement in reaction to illegal immigration, the empirical analysis makes use of the September 11 terror attacks (9/11), which inadvertently triggered stricter immigration enforcement nationwide, as a natural experiment. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach and data from the Current Population Survey between 1996 and 2006, this paper examines the changes in the self‐employment choices of male and non‐citizen Mexican immigrants (a proxy for undocumented immigrants) compared to less‐educated Whites (the control group). The findings indicate that male and non‐citizen Mexican immigrants are substantially more likely (40 percent) to enter into self‐employment than less‐educated Whites after 9/11. The analysis further suggests that this finding is not driven by the 2001 recession that coincided with the terror attacks. The increased entries are mainly observed in the group that is most likely to be in the United States illegally and in those who face strong economic incentives. In addition, increased entries are not driven by increased unemployment among Mexican immigrants after the 9/11 event, but, rather, they reflect a change in the behavior of the unemployed Mexican immigrants, perhaps due to changes in perceived risks of detection and deportation.

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“…It is interesting to note that although the "zero tolerance" immigration policy was cited as an intended deterrent (Hirschfield Davis & Shear, 2018), parent-child separations may be counterproductive to this goal. Parents separated from their children due to immigration enforcement report an intention to return to the United States following deportation with a goal of reuniting with their children (Amuedo-Dorantes, Pozo, & Puttitanun, 2015). In other words, their love for their children motivated the seeking of safety and opportunities in a new country as well as the willingness to face detention to reunify with those separated children.…”

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Future Directions in the Study and Treatment of Parent–Child Separation

Humphreys

2018

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Children require adult caregivers to survive and thrive. In the absence of committed and nurturing care, children face increased risk for a number of difficulties, including internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, cognitive and language deficits, and social difficulties. Recent changes in the U.S. immigration system have resulted in a large number of children removed from their parents, drawing increased scrutiny to the impact of parent-child separation and best practices for caring for children who have been separated. Drawing from work on children exposed to institutional care, as well as research on children separated from caregivers due to validated abuse and neglect, it is clear that children belong in families that are safe and supportive and that some forms of substitute care (i.e., institutional or group-based care) are insufficient to meet children's needs. However, it is difficult to know the specific impact of parent-child separation on child outcomes given that stressors often cluster and pre-separation experiences and post-separation placements also contribute to the experience of separation from a parent and subsequent functioning. Attempts to parse the specific contributions of each separation-related stressor, examining sensitive periods in the impact of separation, studying the mechanisms by which separations affect children, and consideration of the broader social and political context are useful future directions for moving this area of study forward. We must also more fully probe the roles that caregivers play in child development. Lastly, we must endeavor to cease practices of removing children from loving and capable caregivers and, when necessary, provide support to parents and children who have experienced separation.

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Immigration Enforcement, Parent–Child Separations, and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change

The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change

Tightened Immigration Policies and the Self‐Employment Dynamics of Mexican Immigrants

Future Directions in the Study and Treatment of Parent–Child Separation

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