Anti-immigration policy and mental health: Risk of distress and trauma among deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients in the United States.

Luz M Garcini Melanie M Domenech Rodríguez Alfonso Mercado Michelle A Silva Germán A Cadenas Thania Galvan Manuel Paris

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2022)

The future of DACA recipients is uncertain, which can be trauma inducing. The field of psychology needs to make space for this kind of experience as potentially traumatic. Advocacy efforts to shift immigration policies can be strengthened to alter the negative effects of the potential termination of DACA on those affected by it. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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