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Not Every Family: Selective Reunification in Contemporary US Immigration Laws
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This article questions the notion that family reunification is the cornerstone of US immigration policies and points to the violation of the right to family reunification in US law. It specifically looks at the forcible separation of legal residents from their families, including foreign domestic workers in the Labor Certification Program; US-born children with undocumented relatives, including parents and siblings; and guest workers. We argue that the growing influence of nationalist politics and big businesses trumps the interests of the family in US immigration policies, resulting in the prolonged and forcible separation of working-class and poor migrant families.
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“Under receiving country migration policies that privilege younger, skilled immigrants (Askola Reference Askola2016b; Hamilton, Hill et al. Reference Hamilton, Hill and Kintominas2021; Hwang and Parrenas Reference Hwang and Parrenas2010; Spitzer Reference Spitzer2018), grandparent migrants are often framed as a ‘dangerous’ welfare burden (Braedley et al. Reference Braedley, Côté-Boucher and Przed”
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- Authors
- Hwang, M. C., & Parreñas, R. S.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Venue
- International Labor and Working-Class History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 100-109
- ISSN
- 0147-5479 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6445
- OpenAlex
- W2099968687
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Labor and Working-Class History (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Law › Immigration Law and Human Rights
- Keywords
- family reunification, United States immigration law, foreign domestic workers, undocumented immigrants, children of undocumented immigrants, guest workers, nationalism, working-class migrants, poor migrants
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