Cross-Border Marriages (eBook, ePUB)

State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices
Redaktion: Andrikopoulos, Apostolos; Dahinden, Janine; Moret, Joëlle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g., 'sham', 'forced' and 'mixed' marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000853421
• Artikelnr.: 67340352

Autorenporträt

Apostolos Andrikopoulos is Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, and at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is author of Argonauts of West Africa. His current project "Marriage, Migration and Sexuality" has received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Joëlle Moret is Equality and Diversity Officer at the City of Lausanne, Switzerland. She completed a PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where she afterwards worked as Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer. She is the author of European Somalis' Post-Migration Movements. Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of migration, mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion and gender.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction-Contesting categories of cross-border marriages:
perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers 2. Love, money and
papers in the affective circuits of cross-border marriages: beyond the
'sham'/'genuine' dichotomy 3. Marrying 'in'/marrying 'out'? Blurred
boundaries in British Pakistani marriage choices 4. '(Im-)proper' members
with '(im-)proper' families? - Framing spousal migration policies in
Germany 5. When men migrate for marriage: negotiating partnerships and
gender roles in cross-border marriages between rural Kosovo and the EU 6.
Alternative spatial hierarchies: a cross-border spouse's positioning
strategies in the face of Germany's 'pre-integration' language test 7.
Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed
legal statuses 8. Subversive citizens: using EU free movement law to bypass
the UK's rules on marriage migration 9. Buy me love: entanglements of
citizenship, income and emotions in regulating marriage migration 10. The
reconfiguration of European boundaries and borders: cross-border marriages
from the perspective of spouses in Sri Lanka