A ‘master status’ or the ‘final straw’? Assessing the role of immigration status in Latino undocumented youths’ pathways out of school

Enriquez, Laura E.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2016.1235483

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“…I take risk to mean how a system—in this case, the US immigration regime—represents the cause of possible damage—in this case, deportation—for individuals navigating uncertainty (Japp and Kusche : 88). Legal status is a “master status” (Gonzales : 15, but see Enriquez ), limiting the rights and privileges available to undocumented relative to documented immigrants. But documentation does not insulate “legal” immigrants from deportation, particularly when perceived legibility to the bureaucratic side of the US immigration regime is thought to make legibility to the regime's punitive side more likely.…”

Section: The Us Immigration Regime and The Threat Of Deportationmentioning

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On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation

Asad¹

2020

Law Soc Rev

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Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 50 Latin American immigrants in Dallas, Texas, this article uncovers systematic distinctions in how immigrants holding different legal statuses perceive the threat of deportation. Undocumented immigrants recognize the precarity of their legal status, but they sometimes feel that their existence off the radar of the US immigration regime promotes their long‐term presence in the country. Meanwhile, documented immigrants perceive stability in their legal status, but they sometimes view their existence on the radar of the US immigration regime as disadvantageous to their long‐term presence in the country. The article offers the concept of system embeddedness—individuals' perceived legibility to institutions that maintain formal records—as a mechanism through which perceived visibility to the US immigration regime entails feelings of risk, and perceived invisibility feelings of safety. In this way, the punitive character of the US immigration regime can overwhelm its integrative functions, chilling immigrants out of opportunities for material and social well‐being through legalization and legal status. More broadly, system embeddedness illuminates how perceived visibility to a record‐keeping body that combines punitive and integrative goals represents a mechanism of legal stratification for subordinated populations—even absent prior punitive experiences with other social control institutions that might otherwise be thought to trigger their system avoidance.

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Section: The Us Immigration Regime and The Threat Of Deportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation

Asad¹

2020

Law Soc Rev

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“…Longitudinal research, such as the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), also suggests that patterns of intergroup differences in educational attainment exist in early adolescence and persist into high school, translating into diverse labor market outcomes in young adulthood (Portes & Rumbaut 2001, 2017, Portes & Hao 2002, Portes et al 2009, Rumbaut 2008, Zhou et al 2008. Furthermore, intergroup differences in incidents of arrest and incarceration are equally notable, with Chinese and Cuban males on the low end, Jamaicans, West Indians, Salvadorans, Mexicans, and other Latin American immigrants on the high end, and Laotians and Cambodians in between (Portes et al 2009, Rumbaut 2008.…”

Section: Empirical Evidence Divergent Trajectories and Unequal Outcomesmentioning

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“…In many ways, immigration status (and immigration policy, for that matter) matters more at present than it did 25 years ago. Current research in this area has highlighted the significance of undocumented status as a barrier to mobility, indicating that the consequences of illegality for the undocumented 1.5 generation begin to surface in adolescence when undocumented children make critical life course transitions (Abrego 2006, Dreby 2015, Enriquez 2017, Gleeson & Gonzales 2012, Gonzales 2011. Owing to their legal inclusion in K-12 schools, the childhood experiences of undocumented children parallel those of their citizen peers.…”

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Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing Up in the United States

Zhou

Gonzales

2019

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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More than a quarter century of research has generated fruitful results and new insights into the understanding of the lived experiences of the new second generation, which broadly includes both native-born and foreign-born children of immigrant parentage. We critically review the burgeoning literature on the divergent trajectories and unequal outcomes of this new second generation. Given recent changes in immigration policy and in contexts of both exit and reception for new immigrants, we pay special attention to the significance of selectivity and immigration status. We begin by revisiting the canonical literature on assimilation and presenting the original formulation of the segmented assimilation theory as a critique. We then assess the impressive body of empirical research and discuss alternative concepts, models, and paradigms. We conclude our review by discussing the implications for future research on the children of immigrants.

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“…Similarly, several scholars have argued that immigrant legal status is a master status that affects all other factors that influence integration (Gleeson & Gonzales, ; Gonzales, ; cf. Enriquez, ). Theoretically, we can understand this outcome as the result of membership exclusion —that is, “the curtailment of structural kinds of mobility owing to formal societal exclusion” via unauthorized migration status (Bean, Brown, & Bachmeier, : 20).…”

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Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families

2019

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Over the past three decades, a central new challenge confronting millions of children of immigrants has emerged: growing up in a mixed‐status family in which at least one member lacks legal authorization to live and work in the United States. A body of recent research argues that unauthorized immigrant status is the fundamental determinant of integration for unauthorized immigrants, with intergenerational consequences for their U.S.‐born children. We discuss the immigration and other policies that create the particular social context within which unauthorized immigration status becomes so detrimental for integration. Specifically, we focus on federal and state policies that undermine the very factors thought to protect children and support the integration of new generations of Americans: families and social networks, economic resources and opportunities, and health. We conclude with recommendations for future research.

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A ‘master status’ or the ‘final straw’? Assessing the role of immigration status in Latino undocumented youths’ pathways out of school

Cited by 75 publications

References 40 publications

On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation

On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants' Perceived Risk of Deportation

Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing Up in the United States

Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families

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