Gina Marie Longo
Biographic Data
| ID | 288369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gina Marie Longo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gina Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Longo |
| SIGNATURE | LONGO G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8460-8739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caught Between Rights and Vows
This study examines how U.S. immigration policies enact legal violence and multigenerational punishment through the spousal reunification process, particularly in mixed-status, transnational families. Building on the concept of “deportability,” we introduce “importability” to describe a beneficiary’s potential to secure permanent residency, which varies according to social markers such as race, gender, and region of origin. Drawing from a content…
Look What He Has Done To Our Lads
Feminist research focuses on how cisgender men use extreme trolling to reinforce patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. Less is known, however, about milder forms of trolling and how a range of users participate in this process. This paper analyzes user comments on news coverage of a high-profile case of a man who raped other men to examine how trollish behaviors contribute to the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity in digital spaces. We reconcep…
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion
This study investigates how privileged petitioners applying for “green cards” for foreign national spouses uphold the US gender order and gender project when navigating the spousal reunification process. This work troubles the dichotomy within the literature between the all-empowered state and the wholly disempowered petitioners. Using content analysis of an online forum where petitioners exchange advice with others, I show the privileged petitio…
The digital governmentality of marriage migration
There is extensive research on the governmentality of marriage migration, but more is needed about the role of digital spaces. This article focuses on how online US spousal reunification forums and their users define and police ideological norms regarding the US family and decide which transnational relationships are ‘worthy’ of immigration. We show that through their interactions on the site, users perform borderwork and police family, race and …
Downlining Disinformation
doTERRA and Young Living are multi-level marketing (MLM) companies sustained by distribution networks of women who sell their trademark essential oil products. We argue that women join essential oil MLMs based on an iterative, three-pronged strategy that not only recruits women as oil distributors but also simultaneously indoctrinates them to pastel QAnon conspiracy spaces: digitally driven, feminized realms situated at the nexus of New Age spiri…
The Internet as a social institution
Handbook of Digital Inequality
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Family planning purveyors in the global North hail surrogacy and egg donation as treasured opportunities to build families for those unable to have biological children of their own. Offering a range of resources that bring together donors, surrogates, and families, surrogacy agencies frame their services as acts of love and compassion, treasured experiences, and creators of legacies that make 'the impossible possible.' Evidence of surrogacy's roo…
Keeping It in “the Family
Foreign nationals who marry U.S. citizens have an expedited track to naturalization. U.S. immigration officials require that “green card” petitioning couples demonstrate that their relationships are “valid and subsisting” (i.e., for love) and not fraudulent (i.e., for immigration papers). These requirements are ostensibly gender and racially neutral, but migration itself is not; men and women petitioners seek partners in different regions and sol…
Keeping It in “the Family
Foreign nationals who marry U.S. citizens have an expedited track to naturalization. U.S. immigration officials require that “green card” petitioning couples demonstrate that their relationships are “valid and subsisting” (i.e., for love) and not fraudulent (i.e., for immigration papers). These requirements are ostensibly gender and racially neutral, but migration itself is not; men and women petitioners seek partners in different regions and sol…
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion
This study investigates how privileged petitioners applying for “green cards” for foreign national spouses uphold the US gender order and gender project when navigating the spousal reunification process. This work troubles the dichotomy within the literature between the all-empowered state and the wholly disempowered petitioners. Using content analysis of an online forum where petitioners exchange advice with others, I show the privileged petitio…
The digital governmentality of marriage migration
There is extensive research on the governmentality of marriage migration, but more is needed about the role of digital spaces. This article focuses on how online US spousal reunification forums and their users define and police ideological norms regarding the US family and decide which transnational relationships are ‘worthy’ of immigration. We show that through their interactions on the site, users perform borderwork and police family, race and …
Downlining Disinformation
doTERRA and Young Living are multi-level marketing (MLM) companies sustained by distribution networks of women who sell their trademark essential oil products. We argue that women join essential oil MLMs based on an iterative, three-pronged strategy that not only recruits women as oil distributors but also simultaneously indoctrinates them to pastel QAnon conspiracy spaces: digitally driven, feminized realms situated at the nexus of New Age spiri…
Keeping It in “the Family
Foreign nationals who marry U.S. citizens have an expedited track to naturalization. U.S. immigration officials require that “green card” petitioning couples demonstrate that their relationships are “valid and subsisting” (i.e., for love) and not fraudulent (i.e., for immigration papers). These requirements are ostensibly gender and racially neutral, but migration itself is not; men and women petitioners seek partners in different regions and sol…
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Family planning purveyors in the global North hail surrogacy and egg donation as treasured opportunities to build families for those unable to have biological children of their own. Offering a range of resources that bring together donors, surrogates, and families, surrogacy agencies frame their services as acts of love and compassion, treasured experiences, and creators of legacies that make 'the impossible possible.' Evidence of surrogacy's roo…
The Internet as a social institution
Handbook of Digital Inequality
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion
This study investigates how privileged petitioners applying for “green cards” for foreign national spouses uphold the US gender order and gender project when navigating the spousal reunification process. This work troubles the dichotomy within the literature between the all-empowered state and the wholly disempowered petitioners. Using content analysis of an online forum where petitioners exchange advice with others, I show the privileged petitio…
The digital governmentality of marriage migration
There is extensive research on the governmentality of marriage migration, but more is needed about the role of digital spaces. This article focuses on how online US spousal reunification forums and their users define and police ideological norms regarding the US family and decide which transnational relationships are ‘worthy’ of immigration. We show that through their interactions on the site, users perform borderwork and police family, race and …
Downlining Disinformation
doTERRA and Young Living are multi-level marketing (MLM) companies sustained by distribution networks of women who sell their trademark essential oil products. We argue that women join essential oil MLMs based on an iterative, three-pronged strategy that not only recruits women as oil distributors but also simultaneously indoctrinates them to pastel QAnon conspiracy spaces: digitally driven, feminized realms situated at the nexus of New Age spiri…
Caught Between Rights and Vows
This study examines how U.S. immigration policies enact legal violence and multigenerational punishment through the spousal reunification process, particularly in mixed-status, transnational families. Building on the concept of “deportability,” we introduce “importability” to describe a beneficiary’s potential to secure permanent residency, which varies according to social markers such as race, gender, and region of origin. Drawing from a content…
Look What He Has Done To Our Lads
Feminist research focuses on how cisgender men use extreme trolling to reinforce patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. Less is known, however, about milder forms of trolling and how a range of users participate in this process. This paper analyzes user comments on news coverage of a high-profile case of a man who raped other men to examine how trollish behaviors contribute to the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity in digital spaces. We reconcep…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Immigration (2 works)