ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2017
Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children's mental health.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Federal, State, and Local Immigrant-Related Policies and Child Health Outcomes: a Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Pooled it
- The socioeconomic returns to citizenship: A randomized controlled trial.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Trial
- Ethical Stewardship of Immigration Information in Health Research.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- The double-edged sword of scapegoration: how anti-immigrant hostility harms both immigrants and host societies.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Family dominant hypothesis for the effect of family of origin on the mental health of offspring: evidence, mechanism, and implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Recent immigration raids increased student absences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Linking deliveries to newborns using nationwide Medicaid data.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
- Stratified reproduction and threats to reproductive justice for immigrants: Decision-making for fertility using an ecological model.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Depressive Symptoms Over the Course of Adolescence Among Latinx Children of Immigrants and Non-Immigrants and White Youth From Small Towns in the United States.Child & youth care forum · 2025Article
- Including Undocumented Immigrants in Health Research-A Narrative Review of Barriers, Effective Approaches, and Best Practices in the United States.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Leveraging the science of early life predictability to inform policies promoting child health.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Consequences of deferred action for childhood arrivals for parent health: Applying a social foreground perspective.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Supporting Sexual and Reproductive Health for Immigrant Families Across the Lifespan.Academic pediatrics · 2024Review
- Suicide prevention programming across ecological levels: Recommendations from Latinx immigrant origin youth and their parents.Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare · 2024Article
- Immigrants to the United States contribute to society: Here are 3 ways to support their transition.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens' psychological distress, 2011 to 2018.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Policy solutions to eliminate racial and ethnic child health disparities in the USA.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024Review
- Association of Intersectional Anticipated Discrimination with Mental Health Among Immigrant Latinos.Health equity · 2024Article
- Latinx adolescent perspectives on the effects of United States immigration policy on wellbeing.Youth & society · 2023Article
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Abstract
The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents' unauthorized immigration status on the health of their U.S. citizen children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted temporary protection from deportation to more than 780,000 unauthorized immigrants. We used Medicaid claims data from Oregon and exploited the quasi-random assignment of DACA eligibility among mothers with birthdates close to the DACA age qualification cutoff. Mothers' DACA eligibility significantly decreased adjustment and anxiety disorder diagnoses among their children. Parents' unauthorized status is thus a substantial barrier to normal child development and perpetuates health inequalities through the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
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