![]() | Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy Subjects: Immigrant families -- United States -- Social conditions; Immigrant families -- Legal status laws etc. -- United States; Immigrants -- Family relationships -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status families--families that include both citizens and noncitizens--this is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict "citizen/noncitizen" dichotomy. 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 . |
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