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Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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started the workshop by explaining why it is important to consider the specific needs of immigrant families in discussions about child poverty and economic well-being.2 More than 1.4 million children in immigrant families live in poverty, representing 43 percent of all children living in poverty in the United States. AcevedoGarcia also noted that Latino/Latina Americans account for about 18 percent of the total population of the United States, and Latino/Latina children have the highest poverty rates by race or ethnicity.
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citizens, including children who have restricted access to the safety net because they live in immigrant families. She explained that deservingness and access have multiple dimensions, including categorical eligibility exclusions based on immigration status, stricter income eligibility, racialized administrative burden, and the public charge rule.
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subject to under the 5-year the 5-year bar bar Administrative burden due to immigration status Restricted eligibility due to categorical Restricted eligibility due to stricter income Confusion about eligibility due to overly complex exclusions based on immigration status eligibility based on immigration status and fragmented immigrant eligibility rules (e.g., sponsor deeming) Lower benefit levels due to immigration status Fear and reluctance to access the safety net due to potential implications for immigration status (e.g., public charge)
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In some states such as Georgia, there are numerous criminalization policies and few integration policies, which result in a high level of risk of surveillance policing or deportation and few rights or eligibility for social safety net programs. Other states such as Texas have both numerous criminalization and integration policies.
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EFFECTS OF RECENT ANTI-POVERTY EFFORTS Next, Acevedo-Garcia explored some of the current efforts to address child poverty and the ways in which these might affect immigrant families. She referred to the National Academies consensus report, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, which found that it is possible to reduce child poverty by as much as 50 percent through existing anti-poverty policies.15 The report concluded, however, that "[t]
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Garcia Rivera said that there really was no social safety net in place for these families. Many families were excluded or deterred from accessing social safety net programs for the reasons described by both Acevedo-Garcia and Young.
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Young agreed that these categories of deservingness along the immigration status continuum needs to be dismantled, and Garcia Rivera added that the social safety net could be expanded to include all families. Acevedo-Garcia also highlighted several state-level efforts that include immigrant families.
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. Additional support came from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Brandeis Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy, Children's Hospital Association, Family Voices, the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Well Being Trust, and ZERO TO THREE.
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