“We’re dating after marriage”: transformative effects of performing intimacy in Vietnamese “marriage fraud” arrangements

Tran, Grace

doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1881142

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“…While border controls police sexual subjectivities and practices, they also generate new forms of love migration and "strategic intimacies" that try to circumvent and make use of them (Tran 2021).…”

Section: The Containment Of Disease Contagion and Deviant Sexualitiesmentioning

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The sexual politics of border control: an introduction

Holzberg

Madörin

Pfeifer

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In this introductory article to the special issue, we ask what role sexuality plays in the reproduction and contestation of border regimes and think sexuality towards its various entanglements with border control. As borders have been understood as a method for reproducing racialized distinctions, we argue that sexuality is also a method of bordering and illustrate how sexuality works as a key strategy for the capture, containment and regulation of mobility and movement. Taking a transnational approach, we bring together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black, Indigenous and critical border perspectives to suggest that these strategies need to be understood in close relation to the (I) intersecting dynamics of colonial histories of racialization, (II) national regimes of reproductive control and (III) the containment of contagion, disease and sexual deviance.

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Section: The Containment Of Disease Contagion and Deviant Sexualitiesmentioning

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The sexual politics of border control: an introduction

Holzberg

Madörin

Pfeifer

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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‘To Have Security, to Have Access to Life’: Queer Ambivalence at the Borders of Marriage and the Nation

Brainer

2024

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter explores the financial, personal, and relational costs of marriage migration to the United States from a queer point of view. The analysis draws from in-depth interviews, online community forums, and content created by LGBTQ+ people and/or same-sex couples who have petitioned for status based on a fiancé or spousal relationship. The chapter specifically asks: How do the normative and normalizing systems of marriage and immigration impact the individual and the couple? To construct a ‘bona fide’ marriage in the eyes of the State, couples must meet an economic threshold and perform marital and family roles in ways that are intelligible to immigration officials, often sanitizing their relationships and identities in the process. Naturalization scripts are also sanitized and romanticized in the image of a colonial fantasy—US citizenship as an object of pure and even lifelong desire, rather than a complicated step and one compelled by the State. The focus here is on the affective experience of such normalization and the ambivalence people feel toward both the marriage and immigration systems in which their security is entangled.

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“I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal

Strijbosch,

Mazzucato

2024

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“We’re dating after marriage”: transformative effects of performing intimacy in Vietnamese “marriage fraud” arrangements

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

The sexual politics of border control: an introduction

The sexual politics of border control: an introduction

‘To Have Security, to Have Access to Life’: Queer Ambivalence at the Borders of Marriage and the Nation

“I could have married in Europe, if I wanted to” How black migrant men challenge moralizing and racializing discourses when returning to Senegal

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