“Private and Family Life” in Times of Pandemic, Continuities and Breaks in a Discriminatory Policy: The Case of France

Odasso, Laura; Fogel, Frédérique

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“…Nonetheless, despite possible conflict and divergence of opinions, online spaces may also lead to a feeling of cohesion resulting from a common struggle. Turkish couples confronted with immigration laws, policies, and bureaucracies and turned to online communities to look for solutions to build their life together in the Netherlands are a case in point (Kolbaşı & Tiliç, 2023; see also Geoffrion, 2021b; Odasso & Fogel, 2022). When possible, people in such communities meet physically to provide emotional support to each other or develop stronger bonds, as Lee et al's and Kolbaşı and Tılıç's studies show 6 .…”

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Doing family online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information‐seeking practices, and support communities

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Geoffrion

2023

Family Relations

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Objective: Drawing on the theory of polymedia and on the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in (re)defining the articulation between the private and the public, this introduction reflects on what ICT does to and for families around the world. Background: Through the development of networking platforms, video call applications, personal sites, and collaborative information platforms, ICT has changed the way people live, love, and interact. It has also afforded new ways to "do family." Method: By featuring studies from a variety of national and regional contexts (

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Doing family online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information‐seeking practices, and support communities

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Geoffrion

2023

Family Relations

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Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?

Odasso

2023

Migration Studies

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In France, the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced as a cascading crisis, with its effects rippling out beyond its initial health domain. Due to the lockdown and ban on travel, the closure of borders, and the slowdown of administrative services, the pandemic had an unanticipated effect on transnational French/foreign couples lacking formal legal relationship status, causing separation and uncertainty. Overlapping health and migration concerns generated a new specific border regime, which reinforced the already existing ‘deservingness’ criteria for seeking to move to and integrate into the nation. The imposed geographical and administrative immobilisation led to some couples creating online self-help communities, which offered emotional support and shared coping strategies for couples caught in the deadlock. These communities have given the challenges faced by mixed-status couples fresh visibility. Drawing on an ethnography conducted in four online communities, in-depth interviews with transnational couples, and an analysis of politico-juridical materials and grey literature, this article focuses on marriage becoming the option for French/foreign couples seeking the right to reunite in France during an uncertain period. More precisely, by using crisis studies to frame the impact of the pandemic and articulating the scholarship on socio-legal and intimate citizenship, the experiences of such couples can be understood as specific processes in legal consciousness, producing acts of intimate citizenship. This perspective helps demonstrate how the pandemic emphasised the policing of migrant couples, and how institutional and legal opportunities narrowed the choices available to such couples, reducing the potential of change that is generally inherent in crises.

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“Private and Family Life” in Times of Pandemic, Continuities and Breaks in a Discriminatory Policy: The Case of France

Cited by 2 publications

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Doing family online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information‐seeking practices, and support communities

Doing family online: (In)formal knowledge circulation, information‐seeking practices, and support communities

Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?

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