TY - JOUR
T1 - (Un)authorized Transitions
T2 - Illegality, DACA, and the Life Course
AU - Gonzales, Roberto G.
AU - Ellis, Basia
AU - Rendón-García, Sarah A.
AU - Brant, Kristina
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Copyright © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - Drawing on in-depth interviews with 408 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA), this article examines how they experienced their new status and improved adult trajectories as they transitioned from an undocumented to a DACAmented status. Authors' analyses suggest that DACA had a nearly immediate and positive impact on adult trajectories, delaying certain aspects of the “transition to illegality.” In addition, authors found differences in the experiences of respondents who received DACA at earlier and later stages in their transition to adulthood. Nevertheless, important limitations of the program continued to keep DACA beneficiaries in a developmental limbo.
AB - Drawing on in-depth interviews with 408 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA), this article examines how they experienced their new status and improved adult trajectories as they transitioned from an undocumented to a DACAmented status. Authors' analyses suggest that DACA had a nearly immediate and positive impact on adult trajectories, delaying certain aspects of the “transition to illegality.” In addition, authors found differences in the experiences of respondents who received DACA at earlier and later stages in their transition to adulthood. Nevertheless, important limitations of the program continued to keep DACA beneficiaries in a developmental limbo.
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U2 - 10.1080/15427609.2018.1502543
DO - 10.1080/15427609.2018.1502543
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052116404
SN - 1542-7609
VL - 15
SP - 345
EP - 359
JO - Research in Human Development
JF - Research in Human Development
IS - 3-4
ER -