Date of Award

8-1-2021

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (vii, 234 pages) : 1 color illustration.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Joanna Dreby

Committee Members

Christine Bose, Angie Y. Chung

Keywords

family reunification, Filipino, Filipino Americans, immigrant enforcement, legal status, legality, Filipinos, Emigration and immigration law, Naturalization

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

Scholars need to explore legal status and the movement in between legal statuses as a separate phenomenon from citizenship. I develop the “legal status fluidity” framework to investigate how immigrants navigate the U.S. immigration system. I draw my analysis from 54 in-depth interviews and 100 hours of multi-sited participant observation with Filipino and Filipino Americans immigrants from the Greater New York metropolitan area. To access these pathways, immigrants need to a) acquire social and financial capital pre- and post-migration b) access to varied pathways through family and employment and c) utilize their historical relationship with the receiving country. Legal statuses are mutable rather than static aspects of immigrants’ lives.

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