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9. Introduction

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Moret, Joëlle, primary, Dahinden, Janine, additional, and Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, additional

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2023
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15. Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

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Moret, Joëlle, Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, Dahinden, Janine, Moret, Joëlle, Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, and Dahinden, Janine

Abstract

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the ‘good and legitimate citizens’ and the ‘acceptable family’. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states’ concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. The introduction to this Special Issue analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g. ‘sham’, ‘forced’ and ‘mixed’ marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. We suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states’ logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. The empirical contributions of the Special Issue offer new insights into a timely topic.

Published
2019

19. Love, money and papers in the affective circuits of cross-border marriages: beyond the 'sham'/'genuine' dichotomy.

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Andrikopoulos, Apostolos

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*ETHNIC studies, *INTERRACIAL marriage, *EMIGRATION & immigration, *LEGAL status of women, *ADULTS
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In the name of women's protection, Dutch immigration authorities police cross-border marriages differentiating between acceptable and non-acceptable forms of marriage (e.g. 'forced', 'sham', 'arranged'). The categorisation of marriages between 'sham' and 'genuine' derives from the assumption that interest and love are and should be unconnected. Nevertheless, love and interest are closely entwined and their consideration as separate is not only misleading but affects the exchanges that take place within marriage and, therefore, has particular implications for spouses, especially for women. The ethnographic analysis of marriages between unauthorised African male migrants and (non-Dutch) EU female citizens, often suspected by immigration authorities of being 'sham', demonstrate the complex articulation of love and interest and the consequences of neglecting this entanglement – both for the spouses and scholars. The cases show that romantic love is not a panacea for unequal gender relations and may place women in a disadvantaged position – all the more so because the norms of love are gendered and construe self-sacrifice as more fundamental in women's manifestations of love than that of men's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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20. Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers.

Author

Moret, Joëlle, Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, and Dahinden, Janine

Subjects
*INTERRACIAL marriage, *EMIGRATION & immigration
Abstract

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states' concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. The introduction to this Special Issue analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g. 'sham', 'forced' and 'mixed' marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. We suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states' logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. The empirical contributions of the Special Issue offer new insights into a timely topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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22. Unequal access to international mobility and inequalities in the making of communities in Nigerian Diaspora.

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Andrikopoulos, Apostolos

Abstract

Analysing the varied international migratory trajectories from Nigeria to various destinations in the Global South and North, this paper argues that the increasingly stringent admission policies for low-skilled migration and the promotion of 'chosen' professional migration in advanced capitalist countries have transformed, and made more important the role of class and money in the migration processes. Today, more than ever, class and the possession of capital determine the patterns of migration, the routes taken and the destinations chosen. This is a noticeable shift from migration flows of earlier decades regulated by policies (e.g post-war 'guest worker' programmes in Europe) which appealed to migrants from lower socio-economic classes of peripheral countries. Furthermore, this article examines how asymmetries generated by these recent migration policies eventually bring migrants together and create interdependency. This paper argues that inequalities play a key role in the boundary making processes of migrant communities in a twofold way. First, as is well documented, migrants' marginalisation and exclusion from receiving societies reinforce a common feeling of unity and often lead them to appropriate imposed categorisations. Second, interdependency among migrants is also produced through exchange relations which proliferate when there are inequalities and heterogeneity in their communities. Both types of inequalities, between migrants and local population, and among migrants, are, to a significant extent, defined by the civic status of migrants, which is increasingly related to their socio-economic background in their country of origin and their possession of money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

23. Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

Author

Moret, Joëlle, Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, Dahinden, Janine, Moret, Joëlle, Andrikopoulos, Apostolos, and Dahinden, Janine

Abstract

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the ‘good and legitimate citizens’ and the ‘acceptable family’. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states’ concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. The introduction to this Special Issue analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g. ‘sham’, ‘forced’ and ‘mixed’ marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. We suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states’ logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. The empirical contributions of the Special Issue offer new insights into a timely topic.

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