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Title: One Quarter of Hispanic Children in the United States Have an Unauthorized Immigrant Parent
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: In this brief, we draw on publicly available information from several data sources to estimate the proportion of U.S. Latino children who have at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant. Our conclusion: about one quarter—25 to 28 percent—of all Latino children in the United States have an unauthorized immigrant parent. This translates to more than 4 million Hispanic children—a finding consistent across each data source and the three different approaches we used to create the estimate. In short, about 1 in 4 of America’s Hispanic children are at risk for experiencing the stresses associated with having a parent who is an unauthorized immigrant. (Throughout this brief, we use the term unauthorized immigrant parents to describe parents who lack legal status to live in the country.)
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Authors: Clarke, Wyatt; Turner, Kimberly; Guzman, Lina
Publisher: National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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