Caught Between Rights and Vows: The Negative Impacts of U.S. Spousal Reunification Policies on Mixed-Status, Transnational Families with Low “Importability”
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DOI: 10.3390/socsci14070442
Abstract: This study examines how U.S. immigration policies enact legal violence and multigenerational punishment through the spousal reunification process, particularly in mixed-status, transnational families. Building on the concept of “deportability,” we introduce “importability” to describe a… read more here.
Keywords: mixed status; spousal reunification; status transnational; importability ... See more keywords