Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
In: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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