Life, unDACAmented: an American Story

Under then President Barack Obama in 2012, DACA - Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrival, saved more than 800,000 undocumented youth from deportation, and gave us an opportunity to pursue the American dream. This is an American story.

Where we come from

What we do

How we contribute

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Designed for CMPS 165: Data programming for Visualization, Spring 2018

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Country of Origin:

  • American Immigration Council, WHO AND WHERE THE DREAMERS ARE, REVISED ESTIMATES (2012)
  • Country of Residence 2017

    • Employment Data:

    -- Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Total US Employment Rate (2017)
  • Total US Unemployment Rate (2017)
  • Total Not In Labor Force in US (2017)

    • -- Migration Policy Institute

  • Undocumented Immigrants Employment Statistics
  • The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population
  • A Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation (2017)

    • GDP Projections:

    -- Center for American Progress

  • A New Threat to DACA Could Cost States Billions of Dollars (2017)
  • The State-by-State Economic Benefits of Passing the Dream Act (2017)

    • Insights:

  • Results from Tom K. Wong1 et al., 2017 National DACA Study

    • Visualizations Inspirations/Sources:

  • The Atlas of California - Mapping the Challenges of a New Era by Richard A. Walker & Suresh K. Lodha
  • US Data visualization by Karthik Balakrishna
  • Triple Bar Chart by CMPS263 Winter 2018 Students
  • Unauthorized Immigrant Populations by Country and Region 2010-2014 by Migration Policy Institute
  • Immigration Facts: DACA by Brookings Institute

    • Code Sources: