Egalität, Autonomie und Integration: Post-Multikulturalismus in Österreich

Cross-Border Marriages between Residents of South Kosovo and Western Europe: Discourses, Aspirations and Realities

“…6 Regardless of whether they belong to the so-called first generation (meaning that they arrived abroad at school age or later) or to the second generation (meaning that they arrived at pre-school age or were born abroad). partners from their home regions, as is the case in Opoja, are often culturalized and problematized in mainstream Western discourses (Strasser and Tosic 2014;Pellander 2015;Bonjour and Block 2016).…”

“…Based on the literature which analyses the public notions of cross-border marriages in EU states, it is widely assumed that cross-border marriages in which immigrants marry a partner from within their own ethnic group, and "even" from their so-perceived country of origin, postpones or even blocks integration of migrants into the receiving society, as the partnership with a newly-arriving migrant -based on so-perceived different cultural values -postpones the process of integration. The choice to marry someone from the home context is seen as a sign that migrants want to remain among themselves, and that they do not want to integrate into the receiving society (Beck-Gernsheim 2006;Strasser and Tosic 2014). 7 Following this logic, it is anticipated that with marriage migration, migrant communities may "rejuvenate" themselves.…”