TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lekas Miller,Anna
TI  - Love across borders: passports, papers, and romance in a divided world 
SN  - 9781643752334
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Border security
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Love
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - International travel regulations
KW  - Passports
KW  - Statelessness
KW  - Xenophobia
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -