Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Hitting Closer to Home: State Policies’ Impacts on Immigrant Health, Social Science & Medicine
Tatiana Padilla, Cornell University
Adriana Reyes, Cornell University
State policy and the climates they create have become increasingly important for health outcomes and the proliferation of inclusionary and exclusionary immigration related state policies has led to varying state climates for immigrants. We use this divergence in state policy climates to test the relationship between state-level immigration policies and three health outcomes. We include 22 state policies related to immigration enforcement, integration and health to capture the state climate for immigrants. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a nationally-representative study of households in the U.S., we estimate multilevel regression models to assess the role of state policy climate for the healthcare access of immigrants. We also examine differential effects of the policy climate among immigrants, by examining differences by citizenship status and race. We find that more exclusionary immigration policies may be detrimental to healthcare access for all residents regardless of legal status– but ultimately noncitizens see the greatest benefits from inclusive policy climates.
Access to Justice for Unaccompanied Children in U.S. Immigration Court (R&R International Immigration Review)
Chiara Galli, University of Chicago
Tatiana Padilla, Cornell University
Since 2009, nearly 800,000 unaccompanied minors have been apprehended at the US-Mexico border. The vast majority of these children come from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. They migrate to flee child abuse and gang violence, reunify with relatives, and seek better opportunities (UNHCR 2014). Since 2012, over 600,500 unaccompanied minors have been entrusted to ORR shelters (ORR n.d.). ORR, in turn, releases children to family member “sponsors” while they await the outcomes of their removal proceedings in immigration court: the bureaucratic process that determines whether children are ordered deported or allowed to remain in the United States, sometimes, with legal status and a path to citizenship.
This Dispatch from the Field provides new statistics on nearly a half million unaccompanied minors navigating removal proceedings in US immigration courts nationwide between 2009 and 2023 (through March), including population demographics, geographic location of cases, representation rates, and case outcomes. We extrapolated these statistics, even the most basic of which have not been available to the public since 2017, by using a novel approach that we developed to identify unaccompanied minors in administrative data from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR).
Unauthorized Immigrants in NY State: A Demographic Portrait
Tatiana Padilla, Cornell University
Matt Hall, Cornell University
Do refugees contribute to a community's vitality, or are they a drain on a community's safety net resources? Immigration: Key to the Future — The Benefits of Resettlement to Upstate New York (2021) examines how refugees contribute to and even rejuvenate their communities by offsetting demographic and economic decline through paying taxes, rebuilding housing stock, opening new businesses, and taking unfilled jobs. Unauthorized immigrants in New York– who total about 11 million nationally – compose a sizeable share of NYS’s immigrant community, but little is known about their geographic distribution across the state and the social, economic, and demographic characteristics that they possess.
Our chapter aims to accurately estimate these features of New York’s unauthorized population is crucial for policymaking, given their outsized impacts on educational and health institutions, labor and housing markets, public goods and services, and community relations. This chapter uses demographic tools to estimate characteristics of the unauthorized population in New York State, providing detail on their spatial distribution and characteristics that are likely to shape their own and community well-being.
Findings from 2019 Racial Equity and Social Justice Community Conversations, Report Number 2019-16
Emilia Calma and Tatiana Padilla, Montgomery County Summer Fellows
This Office of Legislate Oversight report summarizes findings from the Community Conversations from April and August of 2019. The Community Conversations on Racial Equity and Social Justice provided opportunities for diverse residents across the County to discuss the challenges they face in experiencing racial inequities and to offer recommendations for change.
Chapter II, Overview of Community Conversations
Chapter III, What Challenges to Achieving Racial Equity Does Montgomery County Face
Chapter IV, Suggestions for Achieving Racial Equity in Montgomery County
Chapter V, Suggestions for Future Surveys
Racial Equity in Economic Development in Montgomery County
Tatiana Padilla, Montgomery County Summer Fellows
Drawing from a racial equity lens, this Office of Legislate Oversight report summarizes metrics for measuring economic wellbeing and recommends best practices for equitable economic development.
Chapter II, Overview of racial disparities across several measure of economic well-being
Chapter III, Explains the traditional economic development framework and, providing important contrasts, introduces a racial equity lens to economic development.
Chapter IV, Recommends best practices of economic development through places, people and programs. Additionally, this chapter highlights the steps Montgomery County has taken towards racially equitable economic development.
Racial Equity Profile Montgomery County, Report Number 2019-7
Elaine Bonner-Tompkins, Senior Legislative Analyst Office of Legislative Oversight
Emilia Calma and Tatiana Padilla, Montgomery County Summer Fellows
In the April 2018 resolution (Resolution No. 18-1095) articulating a vision for racial equity and a commitment to develop a Racial Equity and Social Justice Policy for Montgomery County, the County Council tasked the Office of Legislative Oversight to complete a baseline report describing disparities by race and ethnicity across a variety of measures of opportunity by May 31, 2019. This memorandum provides an overview of Jupiter’s Racial Equity Profile report and offers analysis based on the data compiled in this report. This memorandum also offers advice for how to use the information compiled to advance racial equity and social justice in local decision-making.
Supports Dr. Galli by cleaning, merging and managing large administrative data set documenting US immigration cases from 2008-2019. Data was obtained from TRAC, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, through a series of FOIA requests.
Supports Dr. Garip with the COPING project, a study that seeks to understand the impacts of Covid-19 among the immigrant community in the New York City area. Responsible for developing interview documents and team training materials, conducting structured interviews, proofreading translations in Spanish and English.
Supported Dr. Reyes by producing reviews of relevant literature, cleaning and merging a working data set that draws from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Census, executing spatial analysis and preliminary data analysis.
Supported Dr. Bonner-Tompkins in Montgomery County's Racial Equity and Social Justice initiative. Responsible for quantitative and qualitative data management, executing analysis, producing visualizations of findings, field interviews of focus groups in Spanish and English, and creating deliverables.
Supported Dr. Haskins with Systems and Schools project which investigates schools as surveillance institutions and implications for parents involved with Child Protective Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prisons. Responsible for semi-structured interviews, creating materials and proofreading translations in Spanish and English.
Copyright © 2024 Tatiana Padilla - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy Website Builder
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.