Welfare reform and immigrant fertility

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“…welfare reform, title X funding) see e.g. Slusky (forthcoming), Amuedo-Dorantes, Averett and Bansak (2016).…”

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Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

2018

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“…This increase in the state discretion for immigration related eligibility requirements resulted in granting immigrants arriving after PRWORA access to TANF in 19 states (Kehrberg 2017;O'Shea/Ramon 2018). These changes have led to confusion and a belief among immigrants that all foreign-born are disqualified from aid (Amuedo-Dorantes et al 2016).…”

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“…These reforms denied federal public assistance to most non-citizen immigrants for their first five years in the country (Amuedo-Dorantes et al 2016;Kehrberg 2017;Reese 2011). The reforms further implemented a shift from cash-aid welfare policies to 'workfare policies' (Lodemel/Morerira 2014), making welfare benefits conditional to work requirements.…”

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At the intersection of immigration and welfare governance in the United States: State, county and frontline levels and clients’ perspectives

Lanfranconi

Chang

Basaran

2020

Zeitschrift Für Sozialreform

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The U.S welfare reform of 1996 restricted the eligibility of immigrants and introduced a punitive and devolved workfare system. While previous studies explained state variation in the welfare eligibility rules for immigrants, few studies have examined the intersection of immigration and welfare governance within a state. We choose the Californian welfare-to-work (WTW) program as a case, most likely to be inclusive to immigrants. Analyzing statistics, documents, and interviews at the state, county, and frontline levels, however, we also reveal multiple exclusionary mechanisms at various policy levels, such as complicated processes and insufficient translations. Our analysis of immigrant clients’ interviews helps to understand why many immigrants decide not to apply for welfare and how even WTW participants with an immigration background experience fear and are especially vulnerable to unfair treatments. Thus, the implementation of the punitive workfare regime along with the restrictive immigration regime can contradict the aim of WTW-policy to lead families in poverty to selfsufficiency.

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“…An exception to the surge in literature on the performance of different immigrant groups in the US is the question of the performance of African immigrants. While great attention has been paid to immigrants with Hispanic or Latino origins (Amuedo-Dorantes et al, 2007, 2016Myers and Emeka, 2009), little is known about African immigrants perhaps because of their small number. For example, Africans received only 1.7 per cent of all legal permanent resident status determinations during the decade 1970-1979. However, the number of African immigrants has been growing fast, and their share in the total legal permanent status recipients for 2000-2009 has increased to 7.4 per cent.…”

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The Economic Assimilation of African Immigrants in the United States

Tesfazion

2019

International Migration

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This article examines the puzzle that the earnings of African immigrants do not match their high qualifications in terms of educational attainment. We apply cohort analysis to compare the economic assimilation patterns of black African immigrants with that of black non‐African immigrants. We find results that are consistent with the idea that the lower earnings of African immigrants are due to greater difficulty with skill transferability. Africans face substantially lower earnings at entry than black natives and black non‐African immigrants, although they close a substantial part of the initial earnings gap over time. Moreover, the earnings gap at entry has narrowed for recent cohorts; and Africans who migrate during childhood and those with no college education face no disadvantage. We also find similar patterns of assimilation in labour supply and participation in welfare programmes, which indicate that Africans face greater challenges at entry but assimilate at a faster rate.

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Welfare reform and immigrant fertility

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Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

At the intersection of immigration and welfare governance in the United States: State, county and frontline levels and clients’ perspectives

The Economic Assimilation of African Immigrants in the United States

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