Chapter 1 Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies 1
5. Part I. Migration Regimes and their Intimate Discontents
6. Chapter 1 Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in Europe 31
7. Chapter 2 Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism and Failed Cross-Border Marriages 52
8. Chapter 3 Screening for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms of Bureaucratic Feminism 74
9. Part II. Circuits of Sex, Race and Gendered Bodies
10. Chapter 4 Survival within a Multi-circuited Maze: Latin American Sex Workers in Spain 101
11. Chapter 5 Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital for Respectability in Mozambican Women’s Marriage Migration to Europe 122
12. Chapter 6 Fluid Sexualities beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants’ Racialized Gender Performance in Copenhagen 143
13. Part III. Moralities of Money, Mobility and Intimacy
14. Chapter 7 From Programas to Help and Marriage: Transnational Sexual, Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian Women 167
15. Chapter 8 True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba 189
16. Chapter 9 The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban Husbands in Scandinavia 213
17. Index 231