The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

Ahlstedt, Sara

doi:10.3384/diss.diva-129930

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“…With recent exceptions (Domínguez, Solórzano, and Peña 2012;McDevitt-Pugh 2011;Salcedo 2013;Ahlstedt 2016;Awondo 2016;Noor and Besnier 2016), the literature on 'cross-border marriages' (Moret, Andrikopoulos, and Dahinden 2019) has mostly focused on heterosexual couples, reflecting the imprint of state policies on the scholarly agenda. Indeed, straight couples have been much more numerous and more likely to benefit from marriage as an avenue of migration or legalisation.…”

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“…Understandably, the rise of marriage equality in a host of countries over the past 20 years has made same-sex couples an even more relevant object for marriage migration scholarship, as it opened up the possibility for noncitizen 'unrelated individuals' in same-sex relationships with a citizen to eventually 'become citizens by becoming kin' (Moret, Andrikopoulos, and Dahinden 2019). Indeed, the family and love migration literature began incorporating homosexual couples into its field of study as their family ties were gradually recognised and as it became possible for them to obtain migration rights and legal status through those ties (Salcedo 2015;Ahlstedt 2016).…”

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Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Seeking to overcome the heterosexual bias in marriage-migration scholarship and move beyond individualistic approaches to queer mobility, this article focuses on the lives of same-sex couples that hold unequal residence statuses. In a twofold context marked by the increasing legal recognition of same-sex families combined with heightened hurdles facing certain categories of immigrants, we examine what those simultaneous trends mean for these couples. Based on 42 interviews conducted in France, the Netherlands and the United States with people from a variety of class backgrounds, we show how higher resource levels moderate the impact of constraining legal frameworks without suppressing them. We distinguish between low-resource homogamous, heterogamous, and high-resource homogamous couples. The first configuration often results in forced immobility and separation. In heterogamous couples, conjugality becomes a major pathway to legal status for the migrant spousepotentially feeding suspicions of instrumentality. In contrast, privileged migrants in a homogamous couple tend to relate to law in less of a binary way and experience regulations as more easily surmountable. Yet, for them, securing permanent residence represents but one objective among several (including their careers and studies), an investment often disconnected from their matrimonial relationship and at times in competition with it.

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Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Chauvin

Robledo²,

Koren

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Det beror till stor del på att det associerats med rasbiologi och rasistiska föreställ-ningar om att människor tillhör olika raser. Dock har "ras" som analytiskt begrepp fått ett allt större genomslag i Sverige under det senaste decenniet, inte minst genom den postkoloniala forskningen och även den kritiska vithetsforskningen (se bland andra Ahlstedt 2016, Lundström 2007, Mattsson, K. 2005, Hübinette m.fl. 2012.…”

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Integrationen och arbetets marknad: Hur jämställdhet, arbete och annat "svenskt" görs av arbetsförmedlare och privata aktörer

Larsson¹

2015

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“…Because this article could not draw from testimonies found in secondary literature or from personal interviews, the moral economy of suspicion regarding marriage migration discussed here focuses on relations involving heterosexual couples. For analyses that gesture in what form this moral economy could take for same-sex couples, see notably Ahlstedt (2016), Robledo (2013) and Simmons (2008).…”

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A moral economy of suspicion: Love and marriage migration management practices in the United Kingdom

D’Aoust

2017

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This article investigates how marriage migration management practices in the United Kingdom (UK) have entered the realm of security policy by relying on a moral political economy of suspicion that notably mobilizes what I call ‘technologies of love.’ The latter refers to conceptions of ‘true love’ and its manifestations that infuse the regulation of belonging through immigration controls. I argue that this economy of suspicion builds on and partakes in a governmental regulation that result in a stratification of rights. After outlining how Western romantic love has a history that cannot be uncoupled from state concerns about race and citizenship, I detail how Didier Fassin’s notion of moral economy of suspicion relates to technologies of love in the governmentality of marriage migration. Finally, I examine recent legislation and policing practices in the UK to illustrate how technologies of love can become part of judgment formation in evaluating possibly suspicious couples, notably European citizens marrying non-European citizens.

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The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

Cited by 6 publications

References 151 publications

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Class, mobility and inequality in the lives of same-sex couples with mixed legal statuses

Integrationen och arbetets marknad: Hur jämställdhet, arbete och annat "svenskt" görs av arbetsförmedlare och privata aktörer

A moral economy of suspicion: Love and marriage migration management practices in the United Kingdom

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