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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University at Albany (SUNY), specializing in immigration, race and ethnicity, gender and family, and Asian and Asian American Studies. My research examines how immigration policies shape the intimate lives and family formations of Asian migrants in the United States.

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Dissertation

"Paper Trails to the Altar: The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on Asian Migrants' Intimate Relationships"

Through 90 in-depth interviews with Asian migrants, their intimate partners, and community stakeholders across New York City and Seattle, my dissertation examines how Asian migrants navigate intimate relationships when marriage represents both genuine partnership and legal security. By looking at how immigration policies shape intimate relationships among Asian migrants during an unprecedented era of immigration enforcement, this project reveals the ways in which structural power is lived and negotiated in the most personal spaces of everyday life.

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