Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-860-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Worlds in Motion

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groes, Christian

Fernandez, Nadine T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Groes, Christian
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.

Fernandez, Nadine T.
Nadine T. Fernandez is a Professor in the Social Science Department at the State University of New York, Empire State College. She has written Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (2010), as well as several book chapters.  Her articles appear in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Latin American Perspectives, and Temas. In 2015, she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.

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.