Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration : : Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights / / ed. by Anne-Marie D'Aoust.

This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.) :; 1 color photograph, 1 B-W photograph, 1 figure
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights
  • PART ONE. Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management
  • 1. The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020)
  • 2. “A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993
  • 3. “All the Time, Hard Time”: Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants
  • PART TWO. Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights
  • 4. What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark
  • 5. “I’m Not a Bad Guy, I Swear”: Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men’s Participation in “Fake Wedding” Arrangements
  • 6. Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights
  • PART THREE. Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies
  • 7. Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada
  • 8. Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France
  • 9. He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations
  • PART FOUR. Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy
  • 10. “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility
  • 11. Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan
  • 12. Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State
  • 13. Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index