Erin Hamilton
Position Title
- Executive Committee Member
The research investigates the relationship between an immigrant's legal status and their projected socioeconomic status. To explore this relationship, Patler, Hamilton, and Hale compare earnings of immigrants with DACA to those without. What they found was that recipients of DACA were expected to be in a higher socioeconomic class than non-receiving immigrants.
To learn more about this relationship between legal and socioeconomic status, read the full research here.