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A book designed to change minds and hearts. What are we fighting for, after all, if not a world where love can be truly free? --Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Wont Love You Back and Necessary Trouble With a contagious sense of adventure and romance, Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must navigate through Kafkaesque immigration systems and across borders to be together, showing what so many love stories today are up against - including her own. Written with deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and suspenseful storytelling worthy of greatest love stories, Love Across Borders takes readers across contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian War. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasnt allowed to stay in the country, nor could he safely return to Syria. He was a man without a country. So Lekas Miller had to decide her next move: she has an American passport, but deep personal ties to the Middle East, and knew it was unfair that Salem couldnt travel freely the way she could. More importantly, she loved him. Over the next few years, as they navigated Salems asylum claims, the United States Muslim ban, and labyrinthine regulations in several different countries, Lekas Miller learned about--and naturally bonded with--other people whose spouses had been deported, who found love in refugee camps, whose differing immigration statuses caused complicated power dynamics and financial hardship in their relationships or threatened the wellbeing of their children. Here, off...
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