Authors
For _____, the ease of legalization and the strategic relationship are both myths in the social construction of marriage.
Enriquez
The pressure placed on men to have offspring
Lineal Masculinity
The defense of white dominance by positioning immigrants as non-native foreign threats to national identity.
Racialized Nativism
María (U.S. citizen high school sophomore), her mother is undocumented and the permission slip for school asks for an emergency contact… María doesn’t tell her teacher that her mom can’t drive legally or risk being stopped on the highway, instead she decides not to go. Who is legally constrained and who actually bears the consequence?
Maria's mother is legally constrained and Maria bears the consequence.
To fully integrate into a culture; to make yourself fit in
Assimilation
For ____, parents faced a double standard of caretaking expectations.
Parrenes
The ____, that defines middle-class women who can afford migrant workers, migrant workers who perform reproductive care in the world, and poor women who perform reproductive care for their families overseas
International Transfer (3-tiers of caretaking)
Policies and programs designed to counter (not neutralize) structural inequality and system discrimination against minoritized groups.
Affirmative Action
A couple in a mixed-status relationship feels forced to have a small civil ceremony now for legal reasons and a large traditional wedding years later to satisfy their romantic and family desires. They also have to keep joint bank accounts and photos ready to prove their relationship to the government.
Bureaucratic performance of love
Families that work outside the traditional roles that dominate existing literature
Invisible families
For _____, men may face even more pressure than women to marry because they are the sole transmitters of blood for the lineage.
Lamb
Some undocumented youth avoid dating other undocumented people, fearing they will decline together without a pathway to legal status
The Sinking Boat Theory
Families are sites where privilege or inequality is transmitted to the next generation; for undocumented families, legal status acts as an economic barrier to achieving traditional milestones of adulthood
Social reproduction
Tona was a highly educated professional in her home country. After moving to the U.S. on an H4 visa, she is legally barred from working and must rely entirely on her husband for financial support, often spending her days on domestic tasks.
Housewifization
Layers of personality that represent who we are; goes in hand with intersectionality
Identity categories
For ____, parents of children who take on parentification roles are vilified.
Kwon
The idea that legal status produces a shared state of insecurity for the entire household, limiting the opportunities and health behaviors of even the U.S. citizen
Collective Precarity
Circumstances encountered by children who must take on adult responsibilities
Social Age
This is the baseline assumption in society that all romantic relationships should be between only two people and that a "good" life requires turning away from all other potential lovers.
Mononormativity (Heath)
A potential new configuration where unmarried daughters might extend their own father’s patriliny by raising children who keep the maternal grandfather’s surname
Matrilineal Patriliny
For ____, they argue that there is more diversity beyond "traditional" families to better reflect 21st century realities.
Moore
Family units whose members live in different nation-states but maintain close, meaningful, and functional relationships across borders, often due to migration
Transnational family (mother-away, father-away households)
The sociological context created by laws and policies, it produces statuses of legal and illegal concrete material, emotional, political effects on mixed status families.
Context of illegality
Since receiving temporary protection from deportation and a work permit through this specific program, many undocumented youth feel less pressure to "marry for papers" because they have achieved a level of social and economic inclusion
DACA effect
Political inequality tied to global restructuring, international monetary fund (IMF), to participate in global economy
Context spurring migration (what makes people migrate)