Immigration Policy and Belonging: Ramifications for DACA Recipients’ Sense of Belonging

Mallet-Garcia, Marie L.; García-Bedolla, Lisa

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“…While many studies show that socioeconomic background is a major predictor of occupational expectations, economic expectations (as defined by whether respondents have economic worries about their future, as well as whether they expect to have a job that pays well and they most want by the time they are 30) appear to be shaped more by a sense of community belonging and less by individual socioeconomic factors (Bandelj and Lanuza, 2018). Given the rich literature on the role that a sense of belonging plays in immigrant integration (Mallet-García and García-Bedolla, 2021; Osman et al, 2020; Raijman and Geffen, 2018), exploring the intersections between occupational expectations, economic expectations, a sense of community, and pro-integration policies might be a fruitful addition to the literature on what factors drive how immigrants imagine their futures (Lamont, 2019).…”

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Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Chykina

2022

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Europe is experiencing heightened public attention toward anti-immigration policy reforms and restrictions. Despite the potential importance of these policy changes, we do not know whether these policies influence how immigrant children perceive their futures in their host countries. Employing secondary data analysis of the Program for International Student Assessment and the Migrant Integration Policy Index data, I show that a decrease in policy support for immigrant integration is associated with a decrease in how good of a job immigrant children expect to have when they are adults. Since students’ occupational expectations influence their eventual status attainment, this article shows that a decrease in pro-integration policies has important implications for the integration of immigrants into their host countries and for their life trajectories.

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Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Chykina

2022

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…For instance, for DACA recipients in Colorado, rescission of DACA in 2017 intensified feelings of impermanence and liminality that were already present since the inception of DACA while demonstrating resilience in the face of increasingly harmful immigration policies (Burciaga and Malone 2021). For DACA beneficiaries in California, where access to tuition and financial aid for undocumented and DACA students surpasses any other state in the country, the prospect of DACA ending has led to persistent feelings of exclusion and anxiety (Delgado 2022; Mallet-García and García-Bedolla 2021) which for some students jeopardized their ability to successful prepare for their desired careers (Morales Hernandez and Enriquez 2021). Insofar as state-specific legislation plays a key role in undocumented students’ access to higher education (Castrellón 2022; Cebulko 2014; Cebulko and Silver 2016; Suarez-Orozco et al 2015), it would not be surprising if—in states like North Carolina and Massachusetts, where the financial barriers to higher education were already formidable—the specter of revocation threatened beneficiaries’ emotional well-being even more significantly.…”

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The Educational Trajectories of Latinx Undocumented Students: Illegality and Threats to Emotional Well-Being

Vienrich

Stone

2022

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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For undocumented students, the high school–to–college pipeline is filled with social, economic, and psychological stressors. Yet very little is known about the impact of legal status on the experiences of undocumented Latinx college students living in states without tuition equity policies. Using qualitative data from 37 interviews exploring undocumented college students’ educational trajectories in Massachusetts and North Carolina, the authors examine the impact of legal status on the emotional well-being of undocumented Latinx students, including those who benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The findings show that even when undocumented students gain access to higher education, barriers to legal status generate chronic feelings of despair and hopelessness that persist throughout their educational trajectories. Additionally, the authors find that academic motivation and persistence do not always equate with emotional resilience. The authors propose strategies to help facilitate emotional well-being for undocumented students.

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“…Sense of belonging is a popular topic in sociological research (Bennett, 2014;Mallet-García & García-Bedolla, 2021;Miller, 2003;Yuval-Davis, 2006). A sense of belonging is defined as a subjective feeling of perceived inclusion within dynamic societal power structures (Yuval-Davis, 2006).…”

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“…A sense of belonging is defined as a subjective feeling of perceived inclusion within dynamic societal power structures (Yuval-Davis, 2006). Sense of belonging refers to internalized perceptions of membership to a group and external acknowledgment from the group that one belongs to it (Mallet-García & García-Bedolla, 2021;Yuval-Davis, 2006). In addition, this self-identification or identification by others can be stable, contested, or transient (Yuval-Davis, 2006).…”

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“Parece Que Están Dándote Una Bienvenida”: Testimonios of Chicana/o Families Sense of Belonging Through Nature

Orozco,

Schultz,

De La Garza

2024

Int J Sociol Leis

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Environmentalism and social structures are deeply intertwined; therefore, addressing racial disparities for communities of Color is crucial for attaining justice for our natural world and the people within. A white narrative heavily influences outdoor leisure in the U.S. with little insight from other racial groups. The purpose of this study is to explore how the natural world influences Chicana/o families' sense of belonging within their communities. I used testimonios as a methodology coupled with a LatCrit theoretical framework to collect counterstories (to white narratives). After intergenerational family interviews, including my own family, I curated excerpts that reflected core ideas of belonging, connection to the land, and experiences of injustice. These testimonios mirror messages of societal belonging or exclusion within the context of critical social issues for Latine people. The testimonios end with consejos: words of wisdom for future generations. I conclude the results with reflexive poems comprised of the testimonios shared using antropoesía. This study aims to deconstruct racialized hetero-normative narratives of the outdoors and "hold space" (Cairo, 2021) for Latine stories and perspectives.I intend the structure of this thesis to reflect my pedagogical and epistemological stance: knowledge creation is an individual and collective process . Our ancestral knowledge continues through the sharing of stories and oral traditions, an ancient human art form. To honor collective consciousness from (one of the many) iconic Chicana/o authors, I bring forward an excerpt from Gloria Anzaldua's poetry as the second piece. (Excerpt from) El camino de la mestiza / The Mestiza WayBy: Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) Caught between the sudden contradiction, the breath sucked in and the endless space, the Brown woman stands still, looks at the sky. She decides to go down, digging her way along the roots of trees. Sifting through bones, she shakes them to see if there is any marrow in them. Then, touching the dirt to her forehead, to her tongue, she takes a few bones, leaves the rest in their burial place. She goes through her backpack, keeps her journal and address book, throws away the muni-bart metro-maps. The coins are heavy and they go next, then the green backs flutter through the air. She keeps her knife, can opener and eyebrow pencil. She puts bones, pieces of bark, hierbas, eagle feather, snakeskin, tape recorder, the rattle and drum in her pack and sets out to become the complete Tolteca. (p. 104)In the second poetic piece, Anzaldúa, who self-identifies as a queer Chicana from a neighboring border city near where I also grew up, reflects, "when I saw poetry written in Tex-Mex for the first time, a feeling of pure joy flashed through me. I felt like I really existed as a people" (p. 82). I feel similar when I read Anzaluda's (1987) poetry and other work by Latina authors that fueled this thesis. These writers powerfully interweave language and culture; they artfully re-tell a narrative not defined by borders.

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Immigration Policy and Belonging: Ramifications for DACA Recipients’ Sense of Belonging

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

The Educational Trajectories of Latinx Undocumented Students: Illegality and Threats to Emotional Well-Being

“Parece Que Están Dándote Una Bienvenida”: Testimonios of Chicana/o Families Sense of Belonging Through Nature

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