The effects of DACA in young migrant´s professional carriers and emotions

• Main Author: Magdalena Barros Nock
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2017-09-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: DACA; jóvenes migrantes; carrera profesional y emociones; California, Estados Unidos.
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/650

Tuesday 5 of September of 2017 President Trump announced the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and gave Congress six months to find a solution for the lives of these young people in the US. The present article has the objective to study the effects that DACA has had on the professional carriers of young migrants and their emotions through four field work stays between 2012 and 2016 in the agricultural valley of Santa Maria, California, open interviews were implemented to young women and men, following the transformations in their studies, work and emotions. The data obtained is qualitative. In the study, we can see how the young made an effort to continue their studies and search for employment outside the rural sector. Their emotions went from fear and lack of hope to feelings of hope. However, fear has come back again to their lives after Trump was elected.