Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

Hainmueller, Jens; Lawrence, Duncan; Martén, Linna; Black, Bernard; Figueroa, Lucila; Hotard, Michael; Jiménez, Tomás R.; Mendoza, Fernando; Rodríguez, María I.; Swartz, Jonas J.; Laitin, David D.

doi:10.1126/science.aan5893

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“…We also contribute to a growing literature on the impacts of DACA, which finds that DACA improves health among children and adults (Hainmueller et al, 2017;Giuntella and Lonsky, 2018), reduces teenage pregnancy (Kuka, Shenhav and Shih, 2019), and improves adult labor market outcomes (Pope, 2016; Amuedo-Dorantes and Antman, 2017). Closer to this paper, Pope (2016), Amuedo-Dorantes and Antman (2017), and Hsin and Ortega (2017) analyze impacts on school attendance, focusing on older populations that have already completed high school, and therefore are already eligible for the program.…”

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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka

Shenhav

Shih

2020

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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This paper studies human capital responses to the availability of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary work authorization and deferral from deportation for undocumented, high-school-educated youth. We use a sample of young adults that migrated to the United States as children to implement a difference-in-difference design that compares noncitizen immigrants (“eligible”) to citizen immigrants (“ineligible”) over time. We find that DACA significantly increased high school attendance and high school graduation rates, reducing the citizen-noncitizen gap in graduation by 40 percent. We also find positive, though imprecise, impacts on college attendance. (JEL H52, I21, I26, J13, J15, J24)

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka

Shenhav

Shih

2020

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…In a study of adjustment and anxiety disorder among children born in Oregon ( N = 8,610), Hainmueller et al. () used Medicaid claims data to provide evidence of the impact of parents’ unauthorized immigration status on the health of U.S. citizen children. Specifically, capitalizing on the arbitrary birthday cut off for the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program eligibility (i.e., a person born on June 16, 1981, qualifies for DACA, but a person born on June 14, 1981, does not) the mental health of children of ineligible mothers born just before the birthdate cutoff was compared to the mental health of children born to eligible mothers.…”

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

Barajas-Gonzalez

Ayón

Torres

2018

Social Policy Report

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Heeding the call put out by the New England Journal of Medicine (2017), we utilize an ecological–transactional model as a conceptual framework for understanding existing literature and for guiding future research on immigration enforcement threat and Latino child development. Using the World Health Organization's definition of violence, we draw on literature from psychology, medicine, social work, and developmental psychology to outline how the anti‐immigrant climate in the United States and the threat of immigration enforcement practices in everyday spaces are experienced by some Latino children as psychological violence. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners are encouraged to be aware of how uncertainty and threat regarding familial safety adversely impacts the lives of Latino children in immigrant households, especially in charged, anti‐immigrant climates.

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“…277 Policies that offer protection from deportation, such as DACA, may confer large mental health benefits for youth and for the children of parenting youth. 278,279 Immigrant children who have been detained and are in immigration proceedings face almost universal traumatic histories and ongoing stress, including actual or threatened separation from their parents at the border. 7 Immigrant children, including unaccompanied children, are not guaranteed a right to legal counsel, and as such, roughly 50% of children arriving in the United States have no one to represent them in immigration court.…”

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Providing Care for Children in Immigrant Families

Linton

Green

Chilton³

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Pediatrics

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Children in immigrant families (CIF), who represent 1 in 4 children in the United States, represent a growing and ever more diverse US demographic that pediatric medical providers nationwide will increasingly encounter in clinical care. Immigrant children are those born outside the United States to non-US citizen parents, and CIF are defined as those who are either foreign born or have at least 1 parent who is foreign born. Some families immigrate for economic or educational reasons, and others come fleeing persecution and seeking safe haven. Some US-born children with a foreign-born parent may share vulnerabilities with children who themselves are foreign born, particularly regarding access to care and other social determinants of health. Therefore, the larger umbrella term of CIF is used in this statement. CIF, like all children, have diverse experiences that interact with their biopsychosocial development. CIF may face inequities that can threaten their health and wellbeing, and CIF also offer strengths and embody resilience that can surpass challenges experienced before and during integration. This policy statement describes the evolving population of CIF in the United States, briefly introduces core competencies to enhance care within a framework of cultural humility and safety, and discusses barriers and opportunities at the practice and systems levels. Practice-level recommendations describe how pediatricians can promote health equity for CIF through careful attention to core competencies in clinical care, thoughtful community engagement, and systemlevel support. Advocacy and policy recommendations offer ways pediatricians can advocate for policies that promote health equity for CIF. DEMOGRAPHICS Health care of children in immigrant families (CIF) in the United States has received increasing attention over the past decade, in part because of increasing migration of children caused by conflicts globally, greater diversity among migrant populations, and divisive sociopolitical discussion regarding immigration policy. Definitions regarding immigrant children vary, but for the purposes of this policy statement, immigrant

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Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

Cited by 138 publications

References 33 publications

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

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

Providing Care for Children in Immigrant Families

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