Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

Christian Groes, Nadine T. Fernandez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-825-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Worlds in Motion
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-825-4 / 1789208254
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-825-2 / 9781789208252
Zustand	Neuware