{"id":8471,"date":"2009-04-16T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2017-10-21T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T03:48:18","slug":"how-immigration-policy-creates-dependent-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/16\/how-immigration-policy-creates-dependent-spouses\/","title":{"rendered":"How Immigration Policy Creates Dependent Spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartssuspended.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hearts Suspended<\/a>, points to one way that immigration policy disadvantages women.\u00a0 When a non-U.S. citizen is granted the permission to live and work in the U.S., their spouses are often given permission to accompany their spouse, but not to work.\u00a0 These spouses, wives more often than husbands, find themselves completely dependent on their husbands.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nj34k6fLpf4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary, Hearts Suspended, points to one way that immigration policy disadvantages women.\u00a0 When a non-U.S. citizen is granted the permission to live and work in the U.S., their spouses are often given permission to accompany their spouse, but not to work.\u00a0 These spouses, wives more often than husbands, find themselves completely dependent on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,55,2088,2100,2125,778,23697,272,1784,76],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-work","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-intersectionality","tag-intersectionality-gender-x-nation","tag-marriagefamily","tag-nation-india","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72053,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/72053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}