Abstract
H-4 immigrants, when mentioned in news about high-skilled immigration, often have to reckon with the problematic institutional description of their status as “dependents.” Using online media to produce and circulate new texts for understanding what it means to be an H-4 immigrant is an act of documentation for and by those who are culturally and politically undocumented in mainstream U.S. culture. This article considers 2 YouTube videos by Indian women on the H-4 “dependent” visa and argues that these online media texts represent what L. Lowe (1996) has called “immigrant acts” (pp. 8–9). The YouTube videos not only represent and make visible the H-4 subject but, importantly, do so while foregrounding creative storytelling and personal narratives of the H-4 experience.
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