{"product_id":"unauthorized-love-jane-lilly-l-pez-9781503629318","title":"Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eUnauthorized Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane Lez 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, Lez argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Lilly Lez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503629317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503629318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022","brand":"Jane Lilly Lez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982571766015,"sku":"9781503629318","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5cf4c3ed-3017-4827-82bf-c261ffa3bc5d.jpg?v=1683261916","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unauthorized-love-jane-lilly-l-pez-9781503629318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}