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Referring to at least 2 readings, critically discuss the ways that identity is shaped by specific contexts, e.g., our gender, sexuality, class, race and ethnicity, religion, nationality and citizenship status. Please be as specific as possible in your answer, and refer to specific discussions and examples from the readings.New Federalism National Survey of America’s Families THE URBAN INSTITUTE An Urban Institute Program to Assess Changing Social Policies Series B, No. B-67, June 2005 A Profile of Low-Income Working Immigrant Families Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Everett Henderson, and Jane Reardon-Anderson Like other low-income working families, immigrant families need income, food, and housing assistance, as well as health coverage and child care. Immigrants are a large and growing part of America’s labor force. They accounted for half the growth in the U.S. workforce during the 1990s (Sum, Fogg, and Harrington 2002). In 2001, immigrants were 11 percent of the U.S. population, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers in the U.S. economy (Capps, Fix et al. 2003).1 Immigrants are overrepresented among all U.S. workers but especially among lower-paid workers. Many Americans work hard yet struggle to pay bills and provide for their children (Acs, Ross Phillips, and McKenzie 2000). Immigrant families are no exception, since such a high share of immigrant workers earns low wages. In 2001, one-quarter of all children living in low-income families had one or more foreign-born parents (Fix, Zimmermann, and Passel 2001). Almost half (47 percent) of all low-income immigrant families fit our definition of working families, where adults on average worked at least part-time (1,000 hours) in 2001.2 For low-income native families, this rate is 40 percent. These figures suggest that unemployment, underemployment, and episodic employment are common for low-income families headed by both immigrants and natives. Despite similar levels of work effort among their parents, children of immigrants are substantially more likely than children with U.S.-born parents to be poor, have food-related problems, live in crowded housing, lack health insurance, and be in fair or poor health (Capps 2001; Reardon-Anderson, Capps, and Fix 2002). While children of immigrants exhibit high levels of need for public benefits and services, current laws restrict immigrant eligibility for many major federal and statefunded programs. Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for all public benefits except emergency health services. The 1996 welfare reform law restricted many legal immigrants’ eligibility for these programs as well (Fix and Passel 2002). Despite significant benefit restorations in 1997 and 2002, most legal immigrants with less than five years of residency in the United States are ineligible for cash welfare, food assistance, public health insurance, housing assistance, and other major federal benefits (National Immigration Law Center 2002).3 Although over three-quarters of children in immigrant families are U.S. citizens and therefore not subject to these eligibility bars (Capps 2001), their access to benefits may be affected by their parents’ lack of citizenship, as well as other factors including language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and fear of interaction with government agencies (Rodriguez, Hagan, and Capps 2004).