Intimate Mobilities : : Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World / / ed. by Nadine T. Fernandez, Christian Groes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bofulin, Martina,; Charsley, Katharine,; Constable, Nicole,; Fernandez, Nadine T.,; Groes, Christian,; Maskens, Maïté,; Oso, Laura,; Piscitelli, Adriana,; Simoni, Valerio,; Spanger, Marlene,
• HerausgeberIn: Fernandez, Nadine T.,; Groes, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds in Motion ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies -- Part I. Migration Regimes and their Intimate Discontents -- Chapter 1 Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe -- Chapter 2 Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism and Failed Cross-Border Marriages -- Chapter 3 Screening for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms of Bureaucratic Feminism -- Part II. Circuits of Sex, Race and Gendered Bodies -- Chapter 4 Survival within a Multi-circuited Maze: Latin American Sex Workers in Spain -- Chapter 5 Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital for Respectability in Mozambican Women’s Marriage Migration to Europe -- Chapter 6 Fluid Sexualities beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants’ Racialized Gender Performance in Copenhagen -- 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 -- Chapter 8 True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba -- Chapter 9 The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban Husbands in Scandinavia -- Index