Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9780295806143
Content:
Cover -- Living Together, Living Apart -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Epigraph: The Freedom to Move -- Foreword -- Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy -- Part I. Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation -- 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana -- 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States -- 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time -- 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego-Tijuana Border -- 5. "We Thought We Had a Future": Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families -- 6. Being Mixed-Status -- Part II. Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being -- 7. Voice of an American-Mexican -- 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border -- 9. "Someday I'm Going to Have Papers!" (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South -- 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership -- 11. "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) -- Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media -- 12. MIXED-UP -- 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse -- 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? -- 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under "Secure Communities" -- 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States -- 17. Bringing Pedro Home -- 18. My Path to Happiness -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780295995007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780295995007
Language:
English
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