Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study

Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Shah, Sachin J; O’Brien, Rourke; Kawachi, Ichiro; Tsai, Alexander C.

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(17)30047-6

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“…22 This access to coverage, albeit limited, has been found to have a positive impact on the physical health outcomes of its recipients. 23 Having a legal presence has also helped to reduce DACA recipients' fear of seeing a doctor for check-ups or going to a hospital or clinic for treatment when necessary. 24 As a result, DACA recipients were able to receive improved treatment and preventive care.…”

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Transitory Legality: The Health Implication of Ending DACA

Mallet¹,

Bedolla²

2019

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This paper examines the effects of the rescission announcement of the DACA program on the health outcomes of Latino DACA recipients in California. Research shows that undocumented immigrants face poorer health outcomes than their documented counterparts and U.S. citizens, and that being offered legal status (e.g. DACA) considerably improves their health outcomes. Even though studies have examined the impact of shifting legal status on incorporation, to our knowledge no studies have considered the effects of announcing the rescission of the DACA program on its recipients. However, this is important because it may have implications on their health outcomes. This study addresses this gap by using in-depth interviews with 43 Latino DACA recipients living in the California San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 and 2018. Our findings suggest that rescission announcement of DACA has led to worsening health outcomes for DACA recipients. Specifically, we find that it created what we call a state of transitory legality among the 1.5 generation, which causes DACA recipients to experience health outcomes that are worse than those before DACA. Our results are important in the field of sociology, public policy and heath care because they show the negative effects of reversing inclusionary immigration policies on the health outcomes of undocumented Latino immigrants.

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Section: Journal Of Immigrantmentioning

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Transitory Legality: The Health Implication of Ending DACA

Mallet¹,

Bedolla²

2019

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“…In addition, research has shown that DACA increase the economic and social incorporation of recipients by allowing them increased opportunities to open bank accounts and obtain credit cards (Gonzales, Terriquez and Ruszczyk, 2014) and improves recipients' mental health (Venkataramani, et al 2017). …”

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The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students

2018

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“…An estimated 200,000 children had parents who were eligible for DACA at the time the policy was announced (2). Although some studies have found that DACA recipients have higher rates of employment (20–22) and improved health outcomes (23, 24), the intergenerational effects of DACA are largely unknown.…”

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Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

Hainmueller

Lawrence

Martén

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The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents’ unauthorized immigration status on the health of their U.S. citizen children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted temporary protection from deportation to more than 780,000 unauthorized immigrants. We used Medicaid claims data from Oregon and exploited the quasi-random assignment of DACA eligibility among mothers with birthdates close to the DACA age qualification cutoff. Mothers’ DACA eligibility significantly decreased adjustment and anxiety disorder diagnoses among their children. Parents’ unauthorized status is thus a substantial barrier to normal child development and perpetuates health inequalities through the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.

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Health consequences of the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration programme: a quasi-experimental study

Cited by 130 publications

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Transitory Legality: The Health Implication of Ending DACA

Transitory Legality: The Health Implication of Ending DACA

The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students

Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health

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