The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI:10.1177/01979183241309573

Juan Pedroza, Stephanie Potochnick, Robert Santillano

{"title":"The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations","authors":"Juan Pedroza, Stephanie Potochnick, Robert Santillano","doi":"10.1177/01979183241309573","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The 2016 US election of Donald Trump ushered in a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal policies that have been shown to harm immigrant families. This study examines how the election affected immigrant-serving community-based organizations (CBOs), which provide vital support to these communities and may mitigate harm. Focusing on migrant-legal CBOs — a key subset that offers pro-bono or low-cost legal services — and incorporating theories from organizations, social movements, and political opportunity, we assess whether these organizations were able to leverage the election as a focusing event to attract funding and whether they sustained this support over time. Using Internal Revenue Service records, we identify migrant-legal aid CBOs with a track record of delivering legal services to immigrant communities. Using synthetic control methods, we find that financial resources to migrant-legal CBOs increased from 4 to 11 percentage points during the 2016 election, and were 8 to 17 percentage points higher through 2019, the last year of available data. Our study shows that amid the shifting anti-immigrant policy climate of the Trump election, migrant-legal CBOs mobilized as a counterforce, using the socio-political landscape and public response as an opportunity to secure and sustain financial support, potentially acting as a safeguard against the escalating anti-immigrant climate.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Migration Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241309573","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"DEMOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The 2016 US election of Donald Trump ushered in a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal policies that have been shown to harm immigrant families. This study examines how the election affected immigrant-serving community-based organizations (CBOs), which provide vital support to these communities and may mitigate harm. Focusing on migrant-legal CBOs — a key subset that offers pro-bono or low-cost legal services — and incorporating theories from organizations, social movements, and political opportunity, we assess whether these organizations were able to leverage the election as a focusing event to attract funding and whether they sustained this support over time. Using Internal Revenue Service records, we identify migrant-legal aid CBOs with a track record of delivering legal services to immigrant communities. Using synthetic control methods, we find that financial resources to migrant-legal CBOs increased from 4 to 11 percentage points during the 2016 election, and were 8 to 17 percentage points higher through 2019, the last year of available data. Our study shows that amid the shifting anti-immigrant policy climate of the Trump election, migrant-legal CBOs mobilized as a counterforce, using the socio-political landscape and public response as an opportunity to secure and sustain financial support, potentially acting as a safeguard against the escalating anti-immigrant climate.

查看原文本刊更多论文

2016年美国大选及对移民法律援助组织的财政支持

2016年唐纳德·特朗普当选美国总统，引发了一波反移民言论和联邦政策，事实证明这些言论和政策伤害了移民家庭。本研究考察了选举如何影响为移民服务的社区组织（cbo），这些组织为这些社区提供重要支持，并可能减轻伤害。关注移民合法cbo——一个提供无偿或低成本法律服务的关键子集——并结合组织、社会运动和政治机会的理论，我们评估这些组织是否能够利用选举作为一个重点事件来吸引资金，以及他们是否能长期维持这种支持。根据美国国税局的记录，我们确定有向移民社区提供法律服务记录的移民法律援助cbo。使用综合控制方法，我们发现，在2016年大选期间，移民合法cbo的财政资源从4个百分点增加到11个百分点，到2019年（可获得数据的最后一年）增加了8到17个百分点。我们的研究表明，在特朗普选举的反移民政策气候变化中，移民合法cbo动员起来作为一种反击力量，利用社会政治格局和公众反应作为获得和维持财政支持的机会，潜在地充当对抗不断升级的反移民气候的保障。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

International Migration Review DEMOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.00

自引率

7.90%

发文量

期刊介绍： International Migration Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of sociodemographic, historical, economic, political, legislative and international migration. It is internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating study of international migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements. Through an interdisciplinary approach and from an international perspective, IMR provides the single most comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis and review of international population movements.