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Informationen zum Autor Edited by April Schueths and Jodie Lawston. Foreword by Mary Romero Klappentext April Schueths is assistant professor of sociology at Georgia Southern University and a licensed social worker. Jodie Lawston is associate professor of women's studies at California State University, San Marcos. She is the author of Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners and coeditor of Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars and Artists . Inhaltsverzeichnis Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego-Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. "We Thought We Had a Future": Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. "Someday I'm Going to Have Papers!" (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under "Secure Communities" / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index ...
