Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation
to Security, Citizenship, and Rights
ANNE-MARIE D'AOUST
PART ONE
Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management
1 The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930-2020)
BETTY DE HART
2 "A Necessary Evil"? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974-1993
SASKIA BONJOUR AND MASSILIA OURABAH
3 "All the Time, Hard Time": Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants
JI-YEON YUH
PART TWO
Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights
4 What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark
HELENA WRAY
5 "I'm Not a Bad Guy, I Swear": Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men's Participation in "Fake Wedding" Arrangements
GRACE K. TRAN
6 Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights
KERRY ABRAMS AND DANIEL PHAM
PART THREE
Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies
7 Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada
ANNE-MARIE D'AOUST
8 Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France 171
LAURA ODASSO AND MANUELA SALCEDO ROBLEDO
9 He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations
MIEKE VANDENBROUCKE
PART FOUR
Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy
10 "I Don't Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore": Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility
PARDIS MAHDAVI
11 Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan
RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS
12 Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State
EITHNE LUIBHÉID
13 Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen
AUDREY MACKLIN
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index