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- Title
DACA legal services: One federal policy, different local implementation approaches.
- Authors
Gleeson, Shannon; de Graauw, Els
- Abstract
In the United States, the absence of federal funding and coordination for immigration legal services often means that local resources determine immigrants' access to justice. Many of these resources go toward supporting immigrants caught in the detention and deportation system. Yet local support is also critical for implementing federal benefits programs such as the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In this article, we draw on 146 interviews with representatives of legal services providers and their nonprofit collaborators in three immigrant‐dense metropolitan areas—the Greater Houston Area, the New York City Metro Area, and the San Francisco Bay Area—to analyze the distinct, place‐specific service and collaboration models that have emerged over the last decade to meet demand for DACA implementation support. Specifically, we examine how local context shapes the types of actors that immigrants can turn to for immigration legal services, and how they have coordinated on the ground in distinct ways during a time of increasing uncertainty.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); LEGAL services; DEFERRED Action for Childhood Arrivals (U.S.); METROPOLITAN areas; ACCESS to justice
- Publication
Law & Policy, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p434
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lapo.12223