Becoming DACAmented: Assessing the Short-Term Benefits of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Becoming DACAmented: Assessing the Short-Term Benefits of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
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DOI：
10.1177/0002764214550288
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Ruszczyk, Stephen P.
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作者：
Gonzales, Roberto G.;Terriquez, Veronica;Ruszczyk, Stephen P.
迫于政治压力，奥巴马总统于2012年批准了“童年抵美者暂缓遣返计划”（DACA），为符合条件的无证年轻人提供免于驱逐、可更新工作许可和临时社会安全号码的机会。这项政策让人们获得了新的工作、更高的收入、驾驶执照、医疗保健和银行业务。本文使用来自全国DACA受益人样本的数据（N = 2381），调查无证年轻人如何从DACA受益的变化。我们的研究结果表明，至少在短期内，DACA减少了无证年轻人在实现经济和社会融入方面必须克服的一些挑战。然而，那些受教育程度较高、拥有更多家庭和社区资源的人似乎受益最大。因此，我们的研究为社会政策如何与其他分层过程相互作用，从而在无证移民的一般池中形成不同的融合途径提供了新的见解。
In response to political pressure, President Obama authorized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, giving qualified undocumented young people access to relief from deportation, renewable work permits, and temporary Social Security numbers. This policy opened up access to new jobs, higher earnings, driver's licenses, health care, and banking. Using data from a national sample of DACA beneficiaries (N = 2,381), this article investigates variations in how undocumented young adults benefit from DACA. Our findings suggest that, at least in the short term, DACA has reduced some of the challenges that undocumented young adults must overcome to achieve economic and social incorporation. However, those with higher levels of education and access to greater family and community resources appear to have benefited the most. As such, our study provides new insights into how social policy interacts with other stratification processes to shape diverging pathways of incorporation among the general pool of undocumented immigrants.