Unauthorized love : mixed-citizenship couples negotiating intimacy, immigration, and the state / Jane Lilly López.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, Jane Lilly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--United States.

Citizenship.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Family reunification--Law and legislation--United States.

Family reunification.

Foreign spouses--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Foreign spouses.

Foreign spouses--United States.

Intercountry marriage--United States.

Intercountry marriage.

Married people--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Married people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Same, but Different

Chapter 2. The Right Kind of Love(r)

Chapter 3. Navigating the High Stakes of US Family Reunification Law

Chapter 4. (Dis)Integrated Families, (Dis)Integrated Lives

Chapter 5. Institutional (In)Visibility

Chapter 6. Parenthetical Belonging

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix A. Description of Methodology

Appendix B. Brief Background on Study Participants

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503629738

1503629732

OCLC:

1286807891