Publications

This research explores the intensification of anti-immigrant policies in the United States, particularly under Donald Trump’s presidency, which weaponized the “Immigrant Threat Narrative” to justify mass deportations, family separations, and harsh enforcement tactics. Drawing from community-based research with undocumented Central American mothers in Washington, DC, findings reveal widespread fear, depression, and material hardship resulting from immigration enforcement actions.

Parents Can’t Go It Alone introduces you to important new work about what parents need to meet their goals and successfully raise the next generation.

In the absence of clear pathways to citizenship, undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants who came to the United States as children, commonly known as “Dreamers,” tend to live in more complex and less stable households than their documented or native-born counterparts, according to a new study.