Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world /
Lekas Miller, Anna, 1990-
Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world / Anna Lekas Miller. - First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: An Indecent Proposal -- Be Brave -- Penguins and Birds -- Your Relationship or Your Country? -- A Mouse -- No Border Can Get in the Way of Your Love -- Finding Light in the Darkness -- No Country to Call Home -- The Gift of Wings -- Migrant or Refugee? -- "The American Refugee" -- A Hostile Environment -- I Married a Refugee for Papers -- The Green Card Marriage -- Breaking Borders.
"Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he safely return to Syria. In this look at the global immigration crisis, Lekas Miller interweaves love stories similar to her own with a study of the history of passports, the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day"--
9781643752334 1643752332
2022061160
Border security--Case studies.
Love--Political aspects.
International travel regulations.
Passports--Political aspects.
Statelessness.
Xenophobia.
Case studies.
Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world / Anna Lekas Miller. - First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: An Indecent Proposal -- Be Brave -- Penguins and Birds -- Your Relationship or Your Country? -- A Mouse -- No Border Can Get in the Way of Your Love -- Finding Light in the Darkness -- No Country to Call Home -- The Gift of Wings -- Migrant or Refugee? -- "The American Refugee" -- A Hostile Environment -- I Married a Refugee for Papers -- The Green Card Marriage -- Breaking Borders.
"Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he safely return to Syria. In this look at the global immigration crisis, Lekas Miller interweaves love stories similar to her own with a study of the history of passports, the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day"--
9781643752334 1643752332
2022061160
Border security--Case studies.
Love--Political aspects.
International travel regulations.
Passports--Political aspects.
Statelessness.
Xenophobia.
Case studies.