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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj; Adam Strom – EdResearch for Action, 2024
The EdResearch for Action "Overview Series" summarizes the research on key topics to provide K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students. This brief discusses the central question: How can schools and districts promote the educational and social-emotional…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Development, Emotional Development, Well Being
Patrick Corr – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an immigration policy introduced by the Obama administration in 2012, designed to provide work and study authorization to a new generation of previously undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as minors (Napolitano, 2012). As of December 2019, the DACA program is providing amnesty to…
Descriptors: Well Being, Daily Living Skills, Mental Health, Help Seeking
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Chaney, Tina; Martin, Barbara Nell – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
This case study focused on the impact to DACA participants in a mid-western city enrolled at an urban school setting in a region where 30% of all residing immigrants are unauthorized (Capps & Ruiz Soto, 2016). The investigation aimed to understand if the language used during the 2016 election cycle altered trauma-related behaviors in the DACA…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Students, Elections, Language Usage
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Raymond-Flesch, Marissa; Comfort, Megan; Auerswald, Colette L.; McGlone, Linda; Chavez, Marisol; Comas, Sophia; Browne, Erica N.; Minnis, Alexandra M. – Youth & Society, 2023
In a prospective cohort study of Latinx adolescents living in an agricultural county in California, we examined perceptions of federal immigration policy and its effects on community and individual wellbeing. From May to December 2017, 565 youth responded to an open-ended item integrated into ongoing surveys. Median age was 14 (range 13-16 years),…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, Immigration, Public Policy
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Rogers, Jennifer – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2022
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides legal protection to enhance access for a narrow subcategory of undocumented immigrants. Following the presidential election, a series of actions have pushed many of these recipients into limbo, leading to uncertainty and fear for these young students. This case study examined the…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Females, First Generation College Students
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Polk, Sarah; Sharfstein, Joshua; Hernando, Mary Ann; Moon, Margaret; Richards, Shamelle – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2018
The highly publicized imposition and retraction of the "family separation" border policy by the current U.S. Administration was not an anomaly in U.S. history. In this manuscript, we place these troubling recent events in the context of decades of U.S. immigration policies and politics. We then describe the consequences of family…
Descriptors: Immigration, Public Policy, Federal Government, United States History
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Nienhusser, H. Kenny; Oshio, Toko – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Undocu/DACAmented youth continue to face exclusionary policies and educational environments that deter their postsecondary education trajectories. This research draws from 32 interviews with parents and undocu/DACAmented youth in Michigan. Of particular interest were participants' experiences with postsecondary education access since this is one…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Access to Education, College Attendance, Undocumented Immigrants
Wesley Chamberlain, Alexa; Newkirk-Kotfila, Elise – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2022
As institutions seek to improve their structures, processes, and policies, a holistic lens--one that takes into account students' intersecting identities and differences in lived experiences--is required. "(Mis)Understanding Students," updated in 2022, is a resource from the Advising Success Network and NASPA - Student Affairs…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Identification (Psychology), Higher Education, Student Personnel Services
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Enriquez, Laura E.; Chavarria, Karina; Rodriguez, Victoria E.; Ayón, Cecilia; Ellis, Basia D.; Hagan, Melissa J.; Jefferies, Julián; Lara, Jannet; Morales Hernandez, Martha; Murillo, Enrique G.; Nájera, Jennifer R.; Offidani-Bertrand, Carly; Oropeza Fujimoto, Maria; Ro, Annie; Rosales, William E; Sarabia, Heidy; Soltero López, Ana K.; Valadez, Mercedes; Valdez, Zulema; Velarde Pierce, Sharon – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students' experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, At Risk Students, Student Experience
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Lee, Hyein – Journal of College Access, 2021
Due to the sensitive nature of identifying undocumented status, it is difficult to examine the impact of immigration status in the context of higher education and factors crucial to postsecondary and career success. What we do know is that prior to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and for students…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs
Ruskin, Emily – UnidosUS, 2020
Despite educational gains in recent decades for many Latino students, there are still significant barriers to universal quality education in the U.S.; among these are the stresses of current U.S. immigration policy and political discourse, which serve as negative multipliers to pre-existing social, economic, and health inequities. This report…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Barriers, Equal Education, Educational Quality