Re-chercher l’amour transnational

Geoffrion, Karine

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“…It took me a full year to prepare my file! This conversation also highlights how communication technologies facilitate the growth of intimacy between partners during times of physical separation (Baldassar et al 2016;Geoffrion 2016;Madianou and Miller 2013). Yet the extensive use of communication technologies creates an additional challenge.…”

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Bureaucratic Emotionalities: Managing Files, Forms, and Delays in the Canadian Spousal Reunification Process

Geoffrine

2021

anthropologica

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Based on an ethnographic study of Canadian women’s intimate relationships with a racialized man from the Global South, this article focuses on their experiences of the spousal reunification process. More specifically, I examine how the women emotionally and materially engage with spousal reunification procedures and administrative temporalities and how interactions with the Canadian immigration bureaucracy affect their subjectivity as women and citizens. I look at three embodied modes of involvement with bureaucratic procedures—waiting, working and fighting—each bringing forth its own set of emotions and creative coping strategies. I argue that love is central to the experience of the administrative procedures, as an ideological and technological tool used both by the state to regulate and discredit non-desirable relationships and by applicants to make sense of their position (of vulnerability) and to create meaningful narratives within state-imposed categories. A form of defensive agency emerges in women whose enormous application files, filled with “proof” of the authenticity of their relationship, shows how they have endorsed social anxieties about North-South intimacies and the strategies they have developed in order to legitimize their union.

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Bureaucratic Emotionalities: Managing Files, Forms, and Delays in the Canadian Spousal Reunification Process

Geoffrine

2021

anthropologica

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Homestay, Sleepover, and Commensality: Three Intimate Methods in the Study of “Mixed” Families

Fresnoza‐Flot

2022

Genealogy

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Scholars most often adopt qualitative data-gathering methods, notably interviews, to access the lifeworld of “mixed” families. Nonetheless, when research questions require vivid details about their lives, other data-collection techniques may be needed. “Intimate” research methods, characterised by proximate contacts and interactions with “mixed” couples and their families, appear particularly useful in this regard. Drawing from ethnographic studies of mixed families of Filipino and Thai migrant women in Belgium and The Netherlands, the present paper unveils the heuristic value of three intimate methods—homestays, sleepovers, and commensality—in perceiving the realities of these women’s couple and family lives. Homestays and sleepovers allow an in-depth understanding of ways of life within homes, interpersonal interactions, and their intricacies. Commensality (i.e., eating together) offers “snapshots” of the lives of mixed families, providing insights complementary to other methods such as interviews. Hence, the three intimate methods explored in this paper are social sites in which one can view details, otherwise invisible or unspoken, of the lives of mixed families, ranging from power dynamics to intergenerational relations, from the family’s social class status and cross-border social ties to emotional situations.

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‘Mariage non authentique’ : femmes canadiennes en couple binational face à la discrimination administrative

Geoffrion¹

2018

Cahiers Du Genre

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Cet article examine l’expérience vécue du processus de réunification conjugale au Canada du point de vue de femmes canadiennes en couple binational. Il explore comment les difficultés administratives auxquelles ces femmes se heurtent, principalement par rapport à la question de l’authenticité de leur mariage, contribuent à la mise en œuvre de stratégies de résistance, ainsi qu’à la (re)production du concept d’authenticité conjugale. La construction d’une sémantique de l’adversité permet à ces femmes de légitimer leur choix d’un conjoint non normatif.

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Re-chercher l’amour transnational

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Bureaucratic Emotionalities: Managing Files, Forms, and Delays in the Canadian Spousal Reunification Process

Bureaucratic Emotionalities: Managing Files, Forms, and Delays in the Canadian Spousal Reunification Process

Homestay, Sleepover, and Commensality: Three Intimate Methods in the Study of “Mixed” Families

‘Mariage non authentique’ : femmes canadiennes en couple binational face à la discrimination administrative

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