d44ef6ec-cff0-4472-a913-55bbe0c34be220260512142419Depositor Namedepositor_email@address.comRUA Metadata ExporterLaura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771Of Love and PapersHow Immigration Policy Affects Romance and FamilyOf Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain dating, marriage, and parenting. She illustrates how the imprint of illegality remains, even upon obtaining DACA or permanent residency.Interweaving the perspectives of US citizen romantic partners and children, she exposes the multigenerational punishment that limits the upward mobility of Latino families. Of Love and Papers sparks an intimate understanding of contemporary US immigration policies and their enduring consequences for immigrant families.“By highlighting the ways US immigration policies shape the experiences of romantic love, intimacy, and family formation, Enriquez’s meticulous research calls attention to the enduring injurious effects on undocumented and DACAmented young adults, and on their citizen spouses and children. An innovative and sobering account of the far-reaching consequences of our punishing immigration policies. Timely and compelling.” PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California“In an engaging and methodologically rigorous narrative, Enriquez sheds novel light on the courtship and dating phase of family formation among undocumented and/or mixed status Mexican immigrant families. Undeniably, it will be of central interest to anyone who cares about immigrants and their families.” CECILIA MENJÍVAR, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los AngelesLAURA E. ENRIQUEZ is Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain dating, marriage, and parenting. She illustrates how the imprint of illegality remains, even upon obtaining DACA or permanent residency.Interweaving the perspectives of US citizen romantic partners and children, she exposes the multigenerational punishment that limits the upward mobility of Latino families. Of Love and Papers sparks an intimate understanding of contemporary US immigration policies and their enduring consequences for immigrant families.“By highlighting the ways US immigration policies shape the experiences of romantic love, intimacy, and family formation, Enriquez’s meticulous research calls attention to the enduring injurious effects on undocumented and DACAmented young adults, and on their citizen spouses and children. An innovative and sobering account of the far-reaching consequences of our punishing immigration policies. Timely and compelling.” PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California“In an engaging and methodologically rigorous narrative, Enriquez sheds novel light on the courtship and dating phase of family formation among undocumented and/or mixed status Mexican immigrant families. Undeniably, it will be of central interest to anyone who cares about immigrants and their families.” CECILIA MENJÍVAR, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los AngelesLAURA E. ENRIQUEZ is Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.04282020978-0-520-34435-8978-0-520-97548-4978-0-520-97548-4978-0-520-97548-4University of California PressCaliforniahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/10.1525/luminos.88https://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.88- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/f079f1fa-0a7f-4af1-ba97-74be4ac681ed.pdf
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Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771Forming Families in a Context of Illegality0428202010.1525/luminos.88.ahttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.a- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/372b391f-0deb-4c5d-b8b0-3fc2551f9ce0.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“It’s Because He Wants Papers”: Choosing a Romantic Partner0428202010.1525/luminos.88.bhttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.b- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/ec16f4a2-9b37-4156-b138-a2031539cee4.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“You Feel a Little Bit Less”: Gendered Illegality and Desirability When Dating0428202010.1525/luminos.88.chttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.c- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/7cc23514-c5f5-473a-978f-4926d3670562.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“It Affects Us, Our Future”: Negotiating Illegality as a Mixed-Status Couple0428202010.1525/luminos.88.dhttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.d- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/1b5c0df9-b87e-4f7b-b547-b68ffcccaff6.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“It Was Time to Take That Step”: Pursuing Legalization through Marriage0428202010.1525/luminos.88.ehttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.e- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/3ba4cc5f-6e72-4fbc-97d1-e46afe39438b.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“It’s a Constant Struggle”: Becoming and Being Parents0428202010.1525/luminos.88.fhttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.f- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/5e76f22c-55cd-4bb9-be8c-5c09cce71698.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771“I Can’t Offer Them What Other People Could”: Multigenerational Punishment of Citizen Children0428202010.1525/luminos.88.ghttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.g- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/d4b26a7e-825e-4716-a40f-d451c7487fd3.pdf
Laura E.EnriquezUniversity of California, Irvinehttps://ror.org/04gyf1771Immigration Policy and the Future of Latino Families0428202010.1525/luminos.88.hhttps://www.luminosoa.org/chapters/m/10.1525/luminos.88.h- https://www.luminosoa.org/books/99/files/9f0d8bd3-682b-4df3-8875-b0c6ffa9aa5c.pdf