Former President Trump’s election and subsequent anti-immigrant policy initiatives brought an unprecedented sense of uncertainty for undocumented immigrants. This is particularly true for those who had experienced expanding opportunities through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive action signed by former President Obama in 2012. We use in-depth interviews with undocumented young adults to explore how the 2016 presidential election and 2017 executive action that rescinded DACA evoked emotions of anticipatory loss—including sadness and grief—and ontological insecurity—including anxiety and uncertainty. We adopt an interpretive and social constructionist approach to explore these emotions and their implications, demonstrating how even the threat of policy change impacts immigrant young adults’ societal incorporation. We illustrate how DACA recipients conceptualized loss and how these experiences manifested in educational attainment, labor market incorporation, feelings of belonging, and civic participation. Our study provides an innovative contribution to interpret in real-time the incorporation trajectories through the emotions of living with precarious legal status.

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再次无证？年轻人的 DACA 撤销、情绪和融入结果

前总统特朗普的选举和随后的反移民政策倡议给无证移民带来了前所未有的不确定性感。对于那些通过前总统奥巴马在 2012 年签署的儿童入境暂缓遣返 (DACA) 行政行动而经历过扩大机会的人来说尤其如此。我们通过对无证年轻人的深入采访来探索 2016 年总统大选和 2017 年取消 DACA 的行政行为引发了预期损失的情绪——包括悲伤和悲伤——以及本体论的不安全感——包括焦虑和不确定性。我们采用解释性和社会建构主义的方法来探索这些情绪及其影响，展示政策变化的威胁如何影响移民年轻人的社会融入。我们说明了 DACA 接受者如何将损失概念化，以及这些经历如何体现在教育程度、劳动力市场整合、归属感和公民参与中。我们的研究提供了一个创新的贡献，通过生活在不稳定的法律地位的情绪来实时解释合并轨迹。