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Documenting the Undocumented: A Review of the United States' First Municipal ID Program

  • The City of New Haven, CT, sought to promote the assimilation of its immigrants by becoming the first American city to provide a government-backed ID, the Elm City Resident Card, to all residents. This article tests the policy's effectiveness in commerce. We find that Hispanics/Latinos are asked to present an ID more than Whites/Anglos, showing that the former are in greater need of documentation, regardless of their citizenship status. When a Hispanic/Latino presented the Elm City Resident Card to a cashier, it fared only as well as an unofficial ID. Thus, we conclude that the card has negligible utility as a form of documentation.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Ruth K. Ditlmann, Paul Lagunes, Brian M. Levin
Parent Title (English):Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy
Publication year:2012
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:43
Last Page:62
DOI:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TX3MQS
Release Date:2021/06/07
Volume:24
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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