Chapter 8. Adulthood: How Immigration Status Becomes a Master Status

The Legal Status Divide among the Children of Immigrants

Daedalus ◽

10.1162/daed_a_01851 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 150 (2) ◽

pp. 135-149

Author(s):

Roberto G. Gonzales ◽

Stephen P. Ruszczyk

Keyword(s):

Immigration Policy ◽

Legal Status ◽

Public Life ◽

Immigration Status ◽

Educational History ◽

The Past ◽

Deferred Action ◽

Undocumented Status ◽

Master Status ◽

The Impact

Abstract Over the past thirty-five years, federal immigration policy has brightened the boundaries of the category of undocumented status. For undocumented young people who move into adulthood, the predominance of immigration status to their everyday experiences and social position has been amplified. This process of trying to continue schooling, find work, and participate in public life has become synonymous with a process of learning to be “illegal.” This essay argues that despite known variations in undocumented youths by race, place, and educational history, undocumented status has become what Everett Hughes called a “master status.” The uniform set of immigration status-based exclusions overwhelms the impact of other statuses to create a socially significant divide. The rise, fall, and survival of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a policy offering qualified youths a temporary semilegal status, have underlined how closely access and rights hew to the contours of contemporary immigration policy.

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A ‘master status’ or the ‘final straw’? Assessing the role of immigration status in Latino undocumented youths’ pathways out of school

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ◽

10.1080/1369183x.2016.1235483 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (9) ◽

pp. 1526-1543 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Laura E. Enriquez

Keyword(s):

Immigration Status ◽

Master Status ◽

Out Of School

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Reliability of MTurk Data From Masters and Workers

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000300 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 30-36

Author(s):

Steven V. Rouse

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Online Survey ◽

Quality Data ◽

Standard Samples ◽

Online Data ◽

Approval Ratings ◽

Cognitive Abilities Test ◽

Elite Status ◽

Master Status ◽

Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Abstract. Previous research has supported the use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) for online data collection in individual differences research. Although MTurk Masters have reached an elite status because of strong approval ratings on previous tasks (and therefore gain higher payment for their work) no research has empirically examined whether researchers actually obtain higher quality data when they require that their MTurk Workers have Master status. In two different online survey studies (one using a personality test and one using a cognitive abilities test), the psychometric reliability of MTurk data was compared between a sample that required a Master qualification type and a sample that placed no status-level qualification requirement. In both studies, the Master samples failed to outperform the standard samples.

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