I left my home and emigrated

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I left my home and emigrated. Such research demonstrates that mobility does not exist outside of the world of human relationships. People who move have family ties in their countries of origin and will go on to make new ties. As the work on transnationalism contends, our intimate lives are increasingly likely to span multiple countries and cross formal borders.

 

This is not, however, a new phenomenon. Indeed, the policing of cross-border love has long been employed in defining the nation. Historically, political concern over Britons marrying non-citizens has tended to be biased on grounds of gender, ethnicity, and class. 

 

Overt discrimination has largely been erased from the legislation, but bureaucratic hurdles against mixed immigration status relationships still exist and these continue to disproportionately affect certain people over others.

 

Alongside the changes to the entry requirements for family members, there have been developments in the perception and management of relationships of people already in the UK.

 

In January this year, I started a three-year ESRC-funded project at the University of Bristol looking at mixed immigration status families. Focusing on families consisting of a non-citizen man in a relationship with a British or EEA female partner and/or child, the research explores the relationship between family life and living with a precarious immigration status.

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