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Undocumented, to DACAmented, to DACAlimited: Narratives of Latino Students With DACA Status
- Source :
- Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 40:259-278
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2018.
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Abstract
- The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order intended to protect undocumented youth from deportation and mitigate the negative impact of their undocumented status. Using qualitative methods, eight DACA recipients were interviewed. Participants were primarily females, ranged in age from 19 and 27 years old, and had immigrated from Mexico. Our findings revealed that as participants grew up, they experienced a sense of liminality, or “non-belonging”; however, upon receiving DACA status, these feelings of liminality were temporarily abated. Problematically, as our participants encountered the limitations of DACA, their feelings of liminality returned. While DACA increases access to education, health care, and legal system participation, it only temporarily mitigates the impact of having an undocumented status. The ramifications of the sense of liminality that occur with being undocumented is discussed and policy reforms in areas of federal and state educational policy and immigration policy are suggested.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language
Social Psychology
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Immigration
050301 education
Criminology
050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences
Deportation
Feeling
Immigration policy
Anthropology
Health care
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Liminality
Psychology
business
0503 education
media_common
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15526364 and 07399863
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8bb6947f29a2931f773ddd0efe3182af