Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights

"Seldom have I been so excited by an edited collection! This stimulating volume offers diverse disciplinary and geographical approaches to marriage and partner migration - increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of international mobility.  Troubling the binaries which often dog the subject - legal vs emotional, love vs interest, state vs intimacy and migrant vs citizen - Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration offers both an exciting and wide-ranging introduction for newcomers to this fascinating field, and fresh perspectives for those of us already hooked." 

Katharine Charsley, author of Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home'

"This multidisciplinary gem explores the emotional intimacies and legal intricacies of citizenship in today's fraught context of 'family' migration politics. Doing so reveals the structural centrality of state-sanctioned marriage for reproducing - through eurocentric paradigms of love, citizenship and resource distribution - crises of sexual, racial and economic inequality. Not what most expect, and well worth a read."

V. Spike Peterson, co-author of Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium