Journal article
Split families and the future of children: immigration enforcement and foster care placements
- Abstract:
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Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported, and unable to care for them. We find that the average increase in interior immigration enforcement over the 2001 through 2015 period contributed to raising the share of Hispanic children entering foster care between 15 and 21 percent. Given the revival of police-based immigration enforce...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Economic Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- AEA Papers and Proceedings Journal website
- Volume:
- 108
- Issue:
- May 2018
- Pages:
- 368-72
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-30
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2574-0776
- ISSN:
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2574-0768
- Source identifiers:
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819894
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:819894
- UUID:
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uuid:1ec8f001-6431-4739-8196-7629b8187066
- Local pid:
- pubs:819894
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-15
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- Copyright holder:
- American Economic Association
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright 2018 American Economic Association.
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