How Self and Parental Immigration Status Affect College Students’ Experiences of COVID-19
This brief explores how such legal vulnerability differentiated the experiences of college students during the initial months of the pandemic. We use survey data collected from April to June 2020 with 2,310 University of California undergraduate students with immigrant parents. Nearly all respondents reported that the pandemic negatively affected their finances, academics, and wellbeing. However, immigration status structures students’ and their families’ pandemic experiences, leaving undocumented students to confront some of the severest effects, followed closely by their U.S. citizen peers with undocumented parents.
Negative Effects of COVID-19 on Undocumented College Students
This brief explores how undocumented college students fared in the initial months of the pandemic. We use survey data collected from April to June 2020 with 1,067 undocumented undergraduate students attending California public universities. We find that undocumented students reported significant negative impacts to their academics, finances, and well-being, with some students faring worse when cut off from campus resources.
3 Ways to Support Immigration-Impacted Students
The pandemic has disproportionately affected such young adults, and faculty members should support and advocate for them during this time, write Laura E. Enriquez, Mercedes Valadez and Melissa J. Hagan in this opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed.