The Bureaucratic Encounter and Shifting Social Constructions Among Migrant Youth During the DACA Application Process

References

• Abramovitz, M. (1988). Regulating the lives of women: Welfare policy from colonial times to the present. Boston, MA: South End Press.
   Google Scholar
• Abrego, L. J. (2008). Legitimacy, social identity, and the mobilization of law: The effects of Assembly Bill 540 on undocumented students in California. Law & Social Inquiry, 33(3), 709–734. doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2008.00119.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Abrego, L. J., & Lakhani, S. M. (2015). Incomplete inclusion: Legal violence and immigrants in liminal legal statuses: Incomplete inclusion. Law & Policy, 37(4), 265–293.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adams, G., Snyder, K., & Sandfort, J. (2002). Getting and retaining child care assistance: How policy and practice influence parents’ experiences. (Assessing the New Federalism Occasional Paper No. 55). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
   Google Scholar
• Agustín, L. M. (2003). Forget victimization: Granting agency to migrants. Development, 46(3), 30–36.
   Google Scholar
• Altreiter, C., & Leibetseder, B. (2015). Constructing inequality: Deserving and undeserving clients in Austrian social assistance offices. Journal of Social Policy, 44(1), 127–145.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barnes, C., & Henly, J. (2018). “They are underpaid and understaffed”: How clients interpret encounters with street-level bureaucrats. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 28(2), 165–181.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bhuyan, R. (2012). Negotiating citizenship on the frontlines: How the devolution of Canadian immigration policy shapes service delivery to women fleeing abuse. Law & Policy, 34(2), 211–236.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloch, A. (2013). The labour market experiences and strategies of young undocumented migrants. Work, Employment and Society, 27(2), 272–287.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloemraad, I., & Terriquez, V. (2016). Cultures of engagement: The organizational foundations of advancing health in immigrant and low-income communities of color. Social Science & Medicine, 165, 214–222. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.02.003
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloemraad, I., Sarabia, H., & Fillingim, A. E. (2016). “Staying out of trouble” and doing what is “right”: Citizenship acts, citizenship ideals, and the effects of legal status on second-generation youth. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(13), 1534–1552.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boehm, D. A. (2012). Intimate migrations: Gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans. New York, NY: New York University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bozick, R., & Miller, T. (2014). In-state college tuition policies for undocumented immigrants: Implications for high school enrollment among non-citizen Mexican youth. Population Research and Policy Review, 33(1), 13–30.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brayne, S. (2014). Surveillance and system avoidance: Criminal justice contact and institutional attachment. American Sociological Review, 79(3), 367–391. doi:10.1177/0003122414530398
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brodkin, E. Z., & Majmundar, M. (2010). Administrative exclusion: Organizations and the hidden costs of welfare claiming. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 20(4), 827–848.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bruch, S., Ferree, M., & Soss, J. (2010). From policy to polity: Democracy, paternalism, and the incorporation of disadvantaged citizens. American Sociological Review, 75(2), 205–226.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Campbell, A. L. (2005). How polices make citizens: Senior political activism and the American welfare state. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Campbell, A. L. (2007). Universalism, targeting and participation. In J. Soss, J. S. Hacker, & S. Mettler (Eds.), Remaking America: Democracy and public policy in an age of inequality (pp. 121–140). Boston, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.1086/ahr/106.2.591
   Google Scholar
• Cebulko, K. (2014). Documented, undocumented, and liminally legal: Legal status during the transition to adulthood for 1.5-generation Brazilian immigrants. The Sociological Quarterly, 55(1), 143–167. doi:10.1111/tsq.12045
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cebulko, K., & Silver, A. (2016). Navigating DACA in hospitable and hostile states: State responses and access to membership in the wake of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(13), 1553–1574.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chand, D., Schreckhise, W., & Bowers, M. (2017). The dynamics of state and local contexts and immigration asylum hearing decisions. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 27(1), 182–196.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chavez, L. R. (1991). Outside the imagined community: Undocumented settlers and experiences of incorporation. American Ethnologist, 18(2), 257–278. doi:10.1525/ae.1991.18.2.02a00040
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chavez, L. R. (1998). Shadowed lives: Undocumented immigrants in American society. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Coutin, S. B. (1998). From refugees to immigrants: The legalization strategies of Salvadoran immigrants and activists. International Migration Review, 32(4), 901–925. doi:10.1177/019791839803200403
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Creswell, J. W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
   Google Scholar
• De Genova, N. (2013). Spectacles of migrant “illegality”: The scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(7), 1180–1198.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• De Graauw, E. (2014). Municipal ID cards for undocumented immigrants: Local bureaucratic membership in a federal system. Politics & Society, 42(3), 309–330.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• DeSipio, L., & De la Garza, R. O. (1998). Making Americans remaking America: Immigration and immigrant policy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
   Google Scholar
• Djuve, A., & Kavli, H. (2015). Facilitating user involvement in activation programmes: When carers and clerks meet pawns and queens. Journal of Social Policy, 44(2), 235–254.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dreby, J. (2012). The burden of deportation on children in Mexican immigrant families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74(4), 829–845.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Drotbohm, H., & Hasselberg, I. (2015). Deportation, anxiety, justice: New ethnographic perspectives. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(4), 551–562.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Garrett, T. (2010). The border fence, immigration policy, and the Obama administration: A cautionary note. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 32(1), 129–133.
   Google Scholar
• Getrich, C. M. (2008). Negotiating boundaries of social belonging second-generation Mexican youth and the immigrant rights protests of 2006. American Behavioral Scientist, 52(4), 533–556. doi:10.1177/0002764208324605
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
   Google Scholar
• Gleeson, S. (2014). Means to an end: An assessment of the status-blind approach to protecting undocumented worker rights. Sociological Perspectives, 57(3), 301–320. doi:10.1177/0731121414523733
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Golash-Boza, T. (2016). Feeling like a citizen, living as a denizen: Deportees’ sense of belonging. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(13), 1575–1589. doi:10.1177/0002764216664943
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldberg, C. (2007). Citizens and paupers: Relief, rights, and race, from the freedmen’s bureau to workfare. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gonzales, R. G. (2011). Learning to be illegal undocumented youth and shifting legal contexts in the transition to adulthood. American Sociological Review, 76(4), 602–619. doi:10.1177/0003122411411901
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gonzales, R. G., & Bautista-Chavez, A. M. (2014). Two years and counting: Assessing the growing power of DACA. Washington, DC: American Immigration Council.
   Google Scholar
• Gordon, L. (1994). Pitied but not entitled: Single mothers and the history of welfare 1890–1935. New York, NY: Free Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hamlin, R. (2015). Ideology, international law, and the INS: The development of American asylum politics 1948–present. Polity, 47(3), 320–336. doi:10.1057/pol.2015.9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamlin, R. (2016). “Foreign criminals,” the Human Rights Act, and the new constitutional politics of the United Kingdom. Journal of Law and Courts, 4(2), 437–461. doi:10.1086/687409
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamlin, R., & Wolgin, P. E. (2012). Symbolic politics and policy feedback: The United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and American refugee policy in the Cold War. International Migration Review, 46(3), 586–624. doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2012.00898.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hansen, K. (2009). Postmodern border insecurity rationality, discourse, and antiessentialism. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 31(3), 340–359. doi:10.2753/ATP1084-1806310303
   Google Scholar
• Harmon, C., Carne, G., Lizardy-Hajbi, K., & Wilkerson, E. (2010). Access to higher education for undocumented students: “Outlaws” of social justice, equity, and equality. Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education, 5(1), 67–82. doi:10.9741/2161-2978.1033
   Google Scholar
• Hasselberg, I. (2015). Balancing legitimacy, exceptionality and accountability: On foreign-national offenders’ reluctance to engage in anti-deportation campaigns in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(4), 563–579. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2014.957173
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hasselberg, I. (2016). Enduring uncertainty: Deportation, punishment and everyday life. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
   Google Scholar
• Ingram, H., Schneider, A., & deLeon, P. (2007). Social construction and policy design. In P A. Sabatier (Ed.), Theories of the policy process (pp. 169–189). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
   Google Scholar
• Keiser, L., & Soss, J. (1998). With good cause: Bureaucratic discretion and the politics of child support enforcement. American Journal of Political Science, 42(4), 1133–1156. doi:10.2307/2991852
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Korteweg, A. (2003). Welfare reform and the subject of the working mother: ‘Get a job, a better job, then a career’. Theory and Society, 32(4), 445–480.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kubal, A. (2013). Conceptualizing semi-legality in migration research. Law & Society Review, 47(3), 555–587. doi:10.1111/lasr.12031
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Larrison, J., & Edlins, M. (2017). Activating agency and discretion: Identifying factors affecting the interactions between unaccompanied migrant children and public servants. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 3(4), 308–327. doi:10.1504/IJMBS.2017.10006516
   Google Scholar
• Lauby, F. (2016). Leaving the “perfect DREAMer” behind? Narratives and mobilization in immigration reform. Social Movement Studies, 15(4), 374–387. doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1149461
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewis, P., Provine, D., Varsanyi, M., & Decker, S. (2013). Why do (some) city police departments enforce federal immigration law? Political, demographic, and organizational influences on local choices. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 23(1), 1–25. doi:10.1093/jopart/mus045
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lieberman, R. (1998). Shifting the color line: Race and the American welfare state. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Lipsky, M. (1980). Street level bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the individual in public services. New York, NY: The Russell Sage Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Marrow, H. B. (2009). Immigrant bureaucratic incorporation: The dual roles of professional missions and government policies. American Sociological Review, 74(5), 756–776. doi:10.1177/000312240907400504
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marrow, H. B. (2012). Deserving to a point: Unauthorized immigrants in San Francisco’s universal access healthcare model. Social Science & Medicine, 74(6), 846–854. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.08.001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McDonald, C. (2009). The importance of identity in policy: The case for and of children. Children & Society, 23(4), 241–251. doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00170.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McNevin, A. (2011). Contesting citizenship: Irregular migrants and new frontiers of the political. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mead, L. (1997). The new paternalism: Supervisory approaches to poverty. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mead, L. (1998). Telling the poor what to do. The Public Interest, 132, 97–112.
   Google Scholar
• Menjívar, C. (2006). Liminal legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants’ lives in the United States. American Journal of Sociology, 111(4), 999–1037. doi:10.1086/499509
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Menjívar, C., & Abrego, L. J. (2012). Legal violence: Immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants. American Journal of Sociology, 117(5), 1380–1421. doi:10.1086/663575
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mettler, S. (2002). Bringing the state back in to civic engagement: Policy feedback effects of the GI Bill for World War II veterans. American Political Science Review, 96(2), 351–365. doi:10.1017/S0003055402000217
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mettler, S., & Soss, J. (2004). The consequences of public policy for democratic citizenship: Bridging policy studies and mass politics. Perspectives on Politics, 2(1), 55–73. doi:10.1017/S1537592704000623
   Google Scholar
• Miller, H. (2012). Governing narratives: Symbolic politics and policy change. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
   Google Scholar
• Newton, L. (2005). “It is not a question of being anti-immigration”: Categories of deservedness in immigration policy making. In A. L. Schneider & H. M. Ingram (Eds.), Deserving and entitled: Social constructions and public policy (pp. 139–167). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
   Google Scholar
• Nicholls, W. J. (2013). Making undocumented immigrants into a legitimate political subject: Theoretical observations from the United States and France. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(3), 82–107. doi:10.1177/0263276412455953
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nicholls, W. J. (2014). From political opportunities to niche-openings: The dilemmas of mobilizing for immigrant rights in inhospitable environments. Theory and Society, 43(1), 23–49. doi:10.1007/s11186-013-9208-x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nicholson-Crotty, S., & Meier, K. (2005). From perception to public policy: Translating social constructions into policy designs. In A. L. Schneider & H. M. Ingram (Eds.), Deserving and entitled: Social constructions and public policy (pp. 223–242). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
   Google Scholar
• O’Rourke, B. (2014). The view of immigration reform from the U.S.–Mexico border. Public Administration Review, 74(3), 302.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Obama, B. (2012). Remarks by the President on Immigration, June 15, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2015, from https://www.whitehouse.gov
   Google Scholar
• Ong, A., Dominguez, V. R., Friedman, J., Schiller, N. G., Stolcke, V., Wu, D. Y., & Ying, H. (1996). Cultural citizenship as subject-making: Immigrants negotiate racial and cultural boundaries in the United States [and comments and reply]. Current Anthropology, 37(5), 737–762. doi:10.1086/204560
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Patler, C., & Gonzales, R. G. (2015). Framing citizenship: Media coverage of anti-deportation cases led by undocumented immigrant youth organisations. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(9), 1453–1474. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2015.1021587
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Patler, C., & Laster Pirtle, W. (2018). From undocumented to lawfully present: Do changes to legal status impact psychological wellbeing among Latino immigrant young adults? Social Science & Medicine, 199, 39–48. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.009
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pierce, J., Siddiki, S., Jones, M., Schumacher, K., Pattison, A., & Peterson, H. (2014). Social construction and policy design: A review of past applications. Policy Studies Journal, 42(1), 1–29. doi:10.1111/psj.12040
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Portes, A., & Zhou, M. (1993). The new second generation: Segmented assimilation and its variants. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 530 (1), 74–96. doi:10.1177/0002716293530001006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Portes, A., Fernández-Kelly, P., & Haller, W. (2005). Segmented assimilation on the ground: The new second generation in early adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28(6), 1000–1040. doi:10.1080/01419870500224117
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Riccucci, N. (2005). Street-level bureaucrats and intrastate variation in the implementation of temporary assistance for needy families policies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 15(1), 89–111. doi:10.1093/jopart/mui005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ruge, T. R., & Iza, A. D. (2004). Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status. Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, 15, 257. doi:10.18060/17838
   Google Scholar
• Schneider, A. (2006). Patterns of change in the use of imprisonment in the American states: An integration of path dependence, punctuated equilibrium and policy design approaches. Political Research Quarterly, 59(3), 457–470. doi:10.1177/106591290605900313
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schneider, A. L., & Ingram, H. M. (1997). Policy design for democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
   Google Scholar
• Schneider, A., & Ingram, H. (1993). Social construction of target populations: Implications for politics and policy. American Political Science Review, 87(2), 334–347. doi:10.2307/2939044
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schram, S. (2005). Contextualizing racial disparities in American welfare reform: Toward a new poverty research. Perspectives on Politics, 3(02), 253–268. doi:10.1017/S153759270505019X
   Google Scholar
• Schram, S., Fording, R., & Soss, J. (2011). Disciplining the poor: Neoliberal paternalism and the persistent power of race. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Schram, S., Soss, J., Fording, R., & Houser, L. (2009). Deciding to discipline: Race, choice, and punishment at the frontlines of welfare reform. American Sociological Review, 74(3), 398–422. doi:10.1177/000312240907400304
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soss, J. (1999b). Lessons of welfare: Policy design, political learning, and political action. American Political Science Review, 93(2), 363–380. doi:10.2307/2585401
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soss, J. (1999a). Welfare application encounters subordination, satisfaction, and the puzzle of client evaluations. Administration & Society, 31(1), 50–94. doi:10.1177/009539999400935493
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soss, J. (2002). Unwanted claims: The politics of participation in the US welfare system. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
   Google Scholar
• Soss, J. (2005). Making clients and citizens: Welfare policy as a source of status, belief, and action. In A. L. Schneider & H. M. Ingram (Eds.), Deserving and entitled: Social constructions and public policy (pp. 291–328). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
   Google Scholar
• Staniševski, D. (2011). Fear thy neighbor: Ontological security and the illusion of national purity. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 33(1), 62–79. doi:10.2753/ATP1084-1806330103
   Google Scholar
• Terriquez, V. (2011). Schools for democracy: Labor union participation and Latino immigrant parents’ school-based civic engagement. American Sociological Review, 76(4), 581–601. doi:10.1177/0003122411414815
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Terriquez, V. (2012). Civic inequalities? Immigrant incorporation and Latina mothers’ participation in their children’s schools. Sociological Perspectives, 55(4), 663–682. doi:10.1525/sop.2012.55.4.663
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Terriquez, V. (2015). Training young activists: Grassroots organizing and youths’ civic and political trajectories. Sociological Perspectives, 58(2), 223–242. doi:10.1177/0731121414556473
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wacquant, L. (2009). Punishing the poor: The neoliberal government of social insecurity. Durham, UK: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Watkins-Hayes, C. (2011). Race, respect, and red tape: Inside the black box of racially representative bureaucracies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(Supplement 2), i233–i251. doi:10.1093/jopart/muq096
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weaver, V., & Lerman, A. (2010). Political consequences of the carceral state. American Political Science Review, 104(4), 817–833. doi:10.1017/S0003055410000456
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Williams, L. (2015). Beyond enforcement: Welcomeness, local law enforcement, and immigrants. Public Administration Review, 75(3), 433–442. doi:10.1111/puar.12335
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wong, T. K., & García, A. S. (2016). Does where I live affect whether I apply? The contextual determinants of applying for deferred action for childhood arrivals. International Migration Review, 50(3), 699–727. doi:10.1111/imre.12166
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zota, S. (2009). ‘Unauthorized immigrants’ access to higher education: Fifty states, different directions. Popular Government, 74(3), 46–54.
   Google Scholar