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Weike Wang on Citizenship and Belonging | The New Yorker

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The author discusses “Status in Flux,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Save this story Save this story In your story “ Status in Flux ,” a Canadian woman of Chinese origin who is living in the U.S. and married to an American man applies for a green card. Like the character, you were born in China and lived in Canada for a period before moving to the U.S. (albeit at a much younger age). Did you draw on personal experience for the story? Yes. And no. Which is why I like fiction. I did draw on the experience of waiting for the right papers. My father left China first; my mother and I stayed behind until we got our visas to join him in Australia. For a period of time

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