Ashley Acosta

From Newington, Connecticut, Ashley is a senior majoring in Political Science with minors in Legal Studies & History, Sociology, and Latin American and Latinx Studies. Her project, Constructing Precarity: DACA, TPS, and the Politics of Temporary Status, uses census microdata and interview-based analysis to examine how temporary immigration programs shape immigrant incorporation in the United States. By comparing the experiences of TPS and DACA holders, she aims to uncover how legal temporariness produces systemic barriers to stability and belonging.