J Migr Health
School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53726, United States.
Published: May 2024
Objective: To explore the impacts of parental deportation on the health and well-being of U.S. citizen children of Mexican immigrants.
Methods: From 2019-2020, this ambi-directional cohort study recruited U.S.-based families with an undocumented Mexican immigrant parent and U.S.-citizen childrens (ages 13-17) recently exposed to parental deportation ( = 61), and similar families without a history of parental deportation ( = 51). Children health, behavioral, economic, and academic outcomes were measured via phone surveys upon enrollment and six months later. A subsample of "exposed" caregivers ( = 14) also completed in-depth semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using fixed-effects regression models and thematic analyses.
Results: Childrens exposed to parental deportation had significantly worse health status, behavioral problems, material hardship, and academic outcomes than children in the control arm (<.05). Caregivers' interviews illustrated these health, behavioral, academic and family impacts.
Conclusions: Parental deportations have wide and potentially long-lasting health, behavioral, economic, and academic consequences for U.S. citizen youth. Changes in immigration policies and enforcement practices are urgently needed to protect the unity of mixed-legal status families in the U.S. and prevent the suffering of U.S. children in these families.
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May 2024
School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 Highland Ave., Madison, WI, 53726, United States.
Objective: To explore the impacts of parental deportation on the health and well-being of U.S. citizen children of Mexican immigrants.
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