TY - JOUR
T1 - U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Children's Well-being: The Impact of Policy Shifts
AU - Androff, David K.
AU - Ayon, Cecilia
AU - Becerra, David
AU - Gurrola, Maria
AU - Salas, Lorraine
AU - Krysik, Judy
AU - Gerdes, Karen
AU - Segal, Elizabeth
PY - 2011/3/1
Y1 - 2011/3/1
N2 - America is built upon a history of immigration; yet current immigration policy and anti-immigrant sentiment negatively affect the vulnerable population of immigrant families and children. Immigrant children face many problems, including economic insecurity, barriers to education, poor health outcomes, the arrest and deportation of family members, discrimination, and trauma and harm to their communities. These areas of immigrant children's economic and material well-being are examined in light of restrictive and punitive immigration policies at the federal and local level. Implications for social policy reform, such as decriminalization, are discussed.
AB - America is built upon a history of immigration; yet current immigration policy and anti-immigrant sentiment negatively affect the vulnerable population of immigrant families and children. Immigrant children face many problems, including economic insecurity, barriers to education, poor health outcomes, the arrest and deportation of family members, discrimination, and trauma and harm to their communities. These areas of immigrant children's economic and material well-being are examined in light of restrictive and punitive immigration policies at the federal and local level. Implications for social policy reform, such as decriminalization, are discussed.
KW - Immigration policy
KW - children
KW - families
KW - immigrants
UR - https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol38/iss1/5
U2 - 10.15453/0191-5096.3585
DO - 10.15453/0191-5096.3585
M3 - Article
JO - The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
JF - The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
ER -
