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Population Research and Policy Review
January 11, 2024

The Painful and Chilling Effects of Legal Violence: Immigration Enforcement and Racialized Legal Status Inequities in Worker Well‑Being
By Courtney E. Boen, Rebecca Anna Schut, and Nick Graetz


In the present study, we link restricted, geocoded data from the survey data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) to county-level immigration enforcement from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) and population data from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) to examine the links between county-level immigration enforcement and indicators of worker well-being over a nearly two-decade period. We use a battery of linear probability models with time- and place-based fixed effects to assess how changes in local levels of immigration enforcement pattern two measures of worker well-being: reports of musculoskeletal pain and social welfare (i.e., “needs-based”) benefits utilization.....[Citing TRAC data and reports].


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