As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.…mehr
As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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