Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Herausgeber: Groes, Christian; Fernandez, Nadine T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena - such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration - are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of "intimacy".

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Produktdetails

• Worlds in Motion
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781785338601
• ISBN-10: 1785338609
• Artikelnr.: 49793269

Autorenporträt

Christian Groes is an Associate Professor at Roskilde University. His books include Affective Circuits: African Migration to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration (2016, co-ed. Jennifer Cole) and Studying Intimate Matters: Engaging Methodological Challenges in Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, co-ed. Barbara Ann Barrett). In 2012, he received the Young Elite Researcher prize from the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Katharine Charsley
Introduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies
Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez
PART I: MIGRATION REGIMES AND THEIR INTIMATE DISCONTENTS
Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese
Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe
Martina Bofulin
Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism, and Failed
Cross-Border Marriages
Nicole Constable
Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in Brussels's Civil
Registrar Office: Practical Norms Of Bureaucratic Feminism
Mäité Maskens
PART II: CIRCUITS OF SEX, RACE AND GENDERED BODIES
Chapter 4. Survival Within A Multi-Circuited Maze: Latin American Sex
Workers In Spain
Laura Oso
Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital
for Respectability in Mozambican Women's Marriage Migration to Europe
Christian Groes
Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities Beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants'
Racialized Gender Performance in Copenhagen
Marlene Spanger
PART III: MORALITIES OF MONEY, MOBILITY AND INTIMACY
Chapter 7. From Programas to Help and Marriage: Transnational Sexual,
Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian Women
Adriana Piscitelli
Chapter 8. True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and
Belonging in Touristic Cuba
Valerio Simoni
Chapter 9. The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban
Husbands in Scandinavia
Nadine T. Fernandez
Index