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Paths to mobility : a longitudinal evaluation of earnings among Latino/a DACA recipients in California

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01/08/2021
Author
Patler, Caitlin
Hale, Jo Mhairi
Hamilton, Erin R.
Keywords
Undocumented immigrants
DACA
Immigrant integration
Economic integration
1.5 generation immigrants
Latinos
G Geography (General)
Sociology and Political Science
Demography
3rd-DAS
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Abstract
Undocumented immigration status is a structural barrier to socioeconomic mobility. The regularization of legal status may therefore promote the socioeconomic mobility of formerly undocumented immigrants. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provided protection against deportation and access to work authorization for eligible undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. While studies using cross-sectional data find that DACA led to improved socioeconomic status, no studies have examined the socioeconomic status of DACA recipients over time and few have disaggregated among groups of DACA recipients. Drawing from one of the only longitudinal studies of DACA recipients, we use growth curve models to estimate individuals’ wage trajectories from the year prior to DACA receipt up to 77 months post-DACA receipt among Latino/a DACA participants in California. In this sample, DACA is associated with improved earnings trajectories for recipients, compared with nonrecipients. Among DACA recipients, there is variation in earnings growth by stage of the life course, as measured by age and educational attainment. Notably, DACA tenure appears to be particularly beneficial for individuals who attain DACA at earlier ages and who earn college degrees. This study contributes to our understanding of the role of immigration laws and policies in structuring immigrant integration and socioeconomic mobility in the United States.
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Patler , C , Hale , J M & Hamilton , E R 2021 , ' Paths to mobility : a longitudinal evaluation of earnings among Latino/a DACA recipients in California ' , American Behavioral Scientist , vol. 65 , no. 9 , pp. 1146-1164 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996746
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American Behavioral Scientist
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996746
ISSN
0002-7642
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s) SAGE Publications. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23666

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