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- Title
'Impossible Families': Mixed-Citizenship Status Couples and the Law.
- Authors
López, Jane Lilly
- Abstract
This article explores the complex and contradictory relationship between citizenship in the law and the immigrant reality of mixed-citizenship family life through in-depth interviews with individuals in mixed-citizenship marriages. An examination of mixed-citizenship marriage exposes the inadequacies of approaching citizenship as an individual-centered concept. The data indicate that, though both immigration and citizenship laws focus on the individual, the repercussions of those laws have family-level effects. Because of their spouses' immigrant status, many citizens are obliged by the law to live the immigrant experience in their own country or to become immigrants themselves.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States citizenship; INTERNATIONAL marriage; IMMIGRATION law; MARRIAGE law; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Law & Policy, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 1/2, p93
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lapo.12032