Kevin Ferreira van Leer

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NEW Brief! Receiving SNAP (food assistance) was linked with more supportive parenting among immigrant parents with low incomes and young children. Read more: csch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...

@drkevinfvl.bsky.social @caitlombardi.bsky.social

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State policies matter for the well-being of immigrant parents and the academic achievement of their young children. Read more in our latest brief written by CSCH affiliates and colleagues.

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@caitlombardi.bsky.social & I recently published a mixed methods paper examining the role of state policy exclusions on immigrant parent wellbeing & development of their children. The paper is publicly available, please read and share: doi.org/10.1002/ajcp... #academicresearch

Thanks @uconncsch.bsky.social for the spotlight! Coming from an immigrant family, a central value for my work is moving from research on communities to research with communities. How can we support the dreams of immigrant communities & build their capacity for research that supports those dreams?

Thanks for putting this together!

DHS to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Sudan | Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security announced today the extension of Temporary Protected Status- (TPS) for Sudan for 18 months.

ICYMI: The Biden Administration has taken action to extend #TPS for the following countries

SUDAN 🇸🇩
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01...

VENEZUELA 🇻🇪
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01...

UKRAINE 🇺🇦
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EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻
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I know I'll eke out a couple more working hours in 2024 but it's time for my 2024 #wrapped! This work isn't possible with the many collaborators who I work alongside - thank you to everyone. #highereducation #highered #academia #mentorship #teaching #research

A 2006 study found undocumented immigrants contribute more than they cost Texas. The state hasn’t updated it since. A comptroller’s report found that deporting the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas in 2005 would have cost the state about $17.7 billion in gross domestic product.

New: A 2006 study found undocumented immigrants contributed more to Texas than they cost the state. The state hasn’t updated the analysis since.

But a series of reports released by nonprofits and universities since then have reached similar conclusions.

www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/t...

One of the best feelings I get as a professor is at the end of the semester when students in class ask you what other courses you teach because they want to take another class with you - it always puts me on cloud nine!

Giving Latine Families an ‘Early Head Start’ - UConn Today Vanessa Esquivel, a Ph.D. student in the department of human development & family sciences, has received a major federal grant to study early childhood ...

👏👏👏 Congrats to Vanessa, a PhD candidate here in the UConn HDFS program, for receiving the Early Care &Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grant from the Administration of Children and Families of the US DHHS! Take a look at this profile of her work

today.uconn.edu/2024/12/givi...

See my work on how how a deportation policy resulted in more elderly Americans moving into nursing homes--because harder to find home care workers, etc. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh.... And also how greater availability of immigrant labor improves quality of care of nursing homes doi.org/10.3368/jhr.....