Punitive immigration policies across the globe have threatened to destroy marriages and break up families.
When I first fell in love with my—now husband—Salem, in Istanbul, it felt like we had everything in common. We were both journalists with a deep hunger to see the world and tell the kinds of stories that we thought were important. But there was one crucial difference: I had a U.S. passport and could travel as I pleased. He was from Syria and, by extension, was effectively stuck in the Middle East.
“What are they going to do?” I rationalized, energetically pacing around my friend’s apartment. It felt as if we were surrounded by disasters, first a war, next a terrorist attack that happened too close for comfort, now Salem being told that he couldn’t come home. “Kick out a Syrian refugee that has nowhere to go?”
I leaned out of the window and uncharacteristically lit a cigarette, a habit I previously had only indulged in socially. Istanbul was supposed to be our romantic sanctuary, where it didn’t matter that I was an expat while he was a refugee. An Iranian-Canadian friend once joked that Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport was the only place in the world where it didn’t matter which of her two passports she presented.
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