Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium, a country in the European Union with a long history of immigration and where an important percentage of registered marriages are international.Through the optic of “situated mixedness”, the volume pays attention to the (dis-)connections between intimate diversity and its surrounding environment. Bringing together mutually reinforcing or often contradicting emic and etic perspectives, it illuminates how specific context/s (socio-legal, cultural, temporal, etc.) not only can influence, stem from, or trigger a social phenomenon but also remain standstill without a particular impact on individual’s lived experiences. It brings out in subtle ways the agency and subjectivities of individuals, nuancing thereby common-held views on socially Othered couples.Focusing on the intimate sphere of individuals’ life at the crossroads of anthropology and sociology, the volume contributes fresh insights not only to the study of migration and intermarriage but also to the literature on super- and hyper-diversity. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and social actors working on family-related migration, state policies, and social cohesion.The Introduction and Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
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Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium in the context of immigration.
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Introduction. Intimate diversity in Belgium through the optic of situated mixednessPart 1. “Mixed” couples living the context(s) of regulations1. Religious loss or religious spiritualisation? “Christian-Muslim” couples in Belgium: between secularisation and spiritualisation2. Minimum income threshold and migrantised citizens: second-class mixedness in the Belgian family reunification regime3. Bureaucratic couples’ interviews as ordeals of desirability: insights from Brussels4. Intimate mixedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: transnational couples experiencing the effects of travel restrictionsPart 2. Temporal unfolding of intimate diversity5. Belgian-Asian conjugal mixedness in Belgium since 1992: a quantitative perspective6. Intimate diversity outside and within: points of convergence of Belgian-Asian couples in Belgium7. Rapture, rupture, reconstruction: reflections on gay Asian migrant relationship experiences in Belgium8. Transnationally situated meanings regarding food consumption among Laotian-Belgian couples in BelgiumConclusion. Rethinking conjugal mixedness and intimate diversity
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ISBN
9781032777344
Publisert
2024-11-13
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Routledge
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560 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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204

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Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is a tenured Research Associate (chercheuse qualifiee) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and Senior Lecturer (maitresse d’enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) of the Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. She has published widely in English and French including five co-edited Special Issues in peer-reviewed journals and three co-edited volumes. Her works include the volume Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration (co-edited with Liu-Farrer, 2022). She is principal investigator of the research projects BelMix (https://belmix .hypotheses .org/) focusing on the contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples and AspirE (https://aspire.ulb.be/) examining the decision-making of aspiring Asian (re-)migrants.