... and interactions that influence undocumented immigrants’ perceptions of their economic security. The ecological framework suggests that nested systems intersect to shape individuals’ well-being. The microsystem involves immediate daily interactions in the home, community, family members, and peers. The mesosystems...

... immigration reform and pressure from grassroots activists, the Obama administration advanced two programs via executive action—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). By design, both targeted undocumented immigrants at different life course stages...

... Latino immigrants will be 55 years or older by 2038—nearly all of whom will have aged in place. Currently, 40% of older Latino undocumented immigrants do not have insurance. Without policies that increase access to insurance, projections estimate that the share who are uninsured among all older Latinos...

... members, and institutions can help immigrants manage undocumented-related stressors ( Kam & Merolla, 2018 ). Undocumented immigrants can also psychologically cope with their undocumented-related stressors by, for instance, feeling proud of their undocumented status (i.e., an asset; Kam, Pérez Torres...

... the workplace agency of even the most marginalized workers. immigration low-wage workers claims-making Latinas/os undocumented immigrants Immigration status is a central axis of stratification in the United States, with legal status—and, in particular, undocumented status—linked to inequality across a range...

... care access health care evaluation health care quality physicians primary care undocumented immigrants UM with chronic diseases contacted their GP significantly less frequently compared to DM with chronic diseases ( Table 2 ). When looking at population level, there were significantly more DM...

...Caitlin Patler This paper seeks to explain how undocumented immigrants, as marginalized subjects, are able to challenge immigration policy enforcement, especially in the current era of increased criminalization of immigrant communities. Through a national analysis of 125 public anti-deportation...

... to stay open around the clock in the 1990s ( Malincolico 1985 ; Pérez-Peña 2010 : 32). Policing undocumented immigrants with equity, integrity and accountability is becoming one of the toughest law enforcement challenges in the United States ( Varsanyi 2008 : 29–33; Hoffmaster et al...

... rights reserved. 2014 During recent decades, ‘illegal immigrants’ (called undocumented immigrants hereafter) has emerged as a global phenomenon and political ‘problem’ for almost all the wealthy nation states in the world ( De Genova, 2002 ). They are usually seen as foreigners and outcasts, crossing...

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...This chapter examines the attitudes of African Americans toward both Latinas/os and immigrants, and particularly toward toward proposed undocumented immigration policies, in Los Angeles. Using data from the 2007 Los Angeles County Social Survey, it considers the role of racial stereotypes...

... should be exactly that: irrelevant. However, it seems difficult to imagine (for example) that undocumented immigrants would be offered the same benefits under a comprehensive and rationed healthcare system as citizens, due to public opposition. On the other hand, the “better angels of our nature” have...

... of undocumented immigrants, concluding that the state should hold employers to the same standards concerning working conditions regardless of employees’ legal status, and that undocumented workers “have the moral right to compensation 103 for harm” from work-related injuries because they have “the same needs...

... to Hispanics. In poultry, a third succession, involving a growing Somali population (and in some cases political refugees from Burma, Laos, or Sudan), began around 2000. Both documented and undocumented immigrants worked in the meat and poultry businesses. Hispanics, including the undocumented, were now found...

...Milena Andrea Melo’s chapter examines the impact of the lack of health insurance coverage for low-income, undocumented immigrants who required regular dialysis to stay alive. Undocumented immigrants are deemed undeserving of most publicly funded health care services by virtue of their “illegal...

... surveillance of undocumented immigrants. Finally, this chapter suggests that each of the actors discussed in this book will remain relevant to the project of making rights real for immigrant workers. claims making labor standards enforcement making rights real anti immigrant viewpoints labor standards...

... amnesty was touted as a democratic watershed for undocumented immigrants who were mostly of Mexican descent. The chapter argues that in affectively mobilizing the “nation of immigrants” discourse to portray America as the globally exceptional guarantor of democratic rights and equal access to economic...

...This chapter explores nonprofits' strategic issue framing to enact the Municipal ID Ordinance that allows San Francisco to issue identification cards to undocumented immigrants. In the face of increased federal immigration enforcement and growing media scrutiny of San Francisco's welcoming...

... homeless people, undocumented immigrants and travellers in Belgium, using simplified versions of the EU-SILC questionnaires so that comparisons can be made with the ‘mainstream’ EU-SILC data. Despite the small sample sizes of our satellite surveys and doubts concerning their representativeness, our...

... as well. In particular, the conclusion points to the immigrant rights movement’s growing emphasis on black undocumented immigrant and transgender undocumented immigrant activist identities as well as the potential for coalition building and allyship with the Muslim immigrant and refugee community...