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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.
Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have
settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book
offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both
empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of
the varied "post-migration mobility practices" developed by these
migrants from their country of residence after having settled
there. It argues that cross-border mobility may, under certain
conditions, become a form of capital that can be employed to pursue
advantages in transnational social fields. Anchored in rich
empirical data, the book constitutes an innovative and successful
attempt at theoretically linking the emerging field of "mobilities
studies" with studies of migration, transnationalism and
integration. It emphasises how the ability to be mobile may become
a significant marker of social differentiation, alongside other
social hierarchies. The "mobility capital" accumulated by some
migrants is the cornerstone of strategies intended to negotiate
inconsistent social positions in transnational social fields,
challenging sedentarist and state-centred visions of social
inequality. The migrants in the study are able to diversify the
geographic and social fields in which they accumulate and circulate
resources, and to benefit from this circulation by reinvesting them
where they can best be valorised.The study sheds a different light
on migrants who are often considered passive or problematic
migrants/refugees in Europe, and demonstrates that mobility capital
is not the prerogative of highly qualified elites: less privileged
migrants also circulate in a globalised world, benefiting from
being embedded in transnational social fields and from mobility
practices over which they have gained some control.
Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have
settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book
offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both
empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of
the varied "post-migration mobility practices" developed by these
migrants from their country of residence after having settled
there. It argues that cross-border mobility may, under certain
conditions, become a form of capital that can be employed to pursue
advantages in transnational social fields. Anchored in rich
empirical data, the book constitutes an innovative and successful
attempt at theoretically linking the emerging field of "mobilities
studies" with studies of migration, transnationalism and
integration. It emphasises how the ability to be mobile may become
a significant marker of social differentiation, alongside other
social hierarchies. The "mobility capital" accumulated by some
migrants is the cornerstone of strategies intended to negotiate
inconsistent social positions in transnational social fields,
challenging sedentarist and state-centred visions of social
inequality. The migrants in the study are able to diversify the
geographic and social fields in which they accumulate and circulate
resources, and to benefit from this circulation by reinvesting them
where they can best be valorised.The study sheds a different light
on migrants who are often considered passive or problematic
migrants/refugees in Europe, and demonstrates that mobility capital
is not the prerogative of highly qualified elites: less privileged
migrants also circulate in a globalised world, benefiting from
being embedded in transnational social fields and from mobility
practices over which they have gained some control.
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