Situated Mixedness (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Migration-Related Intimate Diversity in Belgium
Redaktion: Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related "intimate diversity", that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium in the context of immigration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040264560
• Artikelnr.: 72290937

Autorenporträt

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a tenured Research Associate (chercheuse qualifiee) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Senior Lecturer (maitresse d'enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. She has published widely in English and French including five co-edited Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals and three co-edited volumes. Her works include the volume Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration (co-edited with Liu-Farrer, 2022). She is principal investigator of the research projects BelMix (https://belmix .hypotheses .org/) focusing on the contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples and AspirE (https://aspire.ulb.be/) examining the decision-making of aspiring Asian (re-)migrants.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Intimate diversity in Belgium through the optic of situated
mixedness
Part 1. "Mixed" couples living the context(s) of regulations
1. Religious loss or religious spiritualisation? "Christian-Muslim" couples
in Belgium: between secularisation and spiritualisation
2. Minimum income threshold and migrantised citizens: second-class
mixedness in the Belgian family reunification regime
3. Bureaucratic couples' interviews as ordeals of desirability: insights
from Brussels
4. Intimate mixedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: transnational couples
experiencing the effects of travel restrictions
Part 2. Temporal unfolding of intimate diversity
5. Belgian-Asian conjugal mixedness in Belgium since 1992: a quantitative
perspective
6. Intimate diversity outside and within: points of convergence of
Belgian-Asian couples in Belgium
7. Rapture, rupture, reconstruction: reflections on gay Asian migrant
relationship experiences in Belgium
8. Transnationally situated meanings regarding food consumption among
Laotian-Belgian couples in Belgium
Conclusion. Rethinking conjugal mixedness and intimate diversity