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Cross-Border Marriages - State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices (Hardcover)
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Cross-Border Marriages - State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses
challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the
making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable
family'. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of
increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the
object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages
and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by
states' concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive
assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and
agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. This
collection of essays analyses what is at stake in the regulation of
cross-border marriages and how European states use particular
categories (e.g., 'sham', 'forced' and 'mixed' marriages) to
differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When
researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk
reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing
state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. The chapters in
this book offer new insights into a timely topic and suggest ways
to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of
analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do
not mirror nation-states' logic and engaging with general social
theory outside migration studies. This book will be of interest to
researchers and academics of Sociology, Politics, International
Relations, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Geography,
Social Work, and Public Policy. Barring one, all the chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue in the
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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