Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world
Title:
Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world
Author:
Lekas Miller, Anna, 1990- author.
ISBN:
9781643752334
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
243 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
