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Title: Immigrant Families and Child Welfare Systems: Emerging Needs and Promising Policies

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Recent demographic trends and a rapidly changing immigration policy landscape, including rising federal immigration enforcement, have important implications for state and local child welfare agencies. A growing share of children in the United States have at least one immigrant parent—slightly more than one in four as of 2017. Nearly 90 percent of these children were born in the country and are therefore U.S. citizens, and about one-quarter have an unauthorized immigrant parent. Key Findings Short on time? Check out this executive summary, which highlights the full report's top findings. Executive Summary Children of immigrants, like other U.S. children, may enter the child welfare system if there are reports of abuse or neglect. Yet immigrant families can face unique challenges when it comes . . .

Url: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-families-child-welfare-systems

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Authors: Greenberg, Mark; Capps, Randy; Kalweit, Andrew; Grishkin, Jennifer; Flagg, Ann

Publisher: Migration Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare

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