10. “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Series Foreword ix
4. Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights 1
5. PART ONE. Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management
6. 1. The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020) 31
7. 2. “A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993 49
8. 3. “All the Time, Hard Time”: Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants 67
9. PART TWO. Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights
10. 4. What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark 87
11. 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 106
12. 6. Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights 125
13. PART THREE. Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies
14. 7. Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada 153
15. 8. Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France 171
16. 9. He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations 189
17. PART FOUR. Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy
18. 10. “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility 207
19. 11. Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan 225
20. 12. Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State 240
21. 13. Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen 259
22. Acknowledgments 275
23. Notes on Contributors 279
24. Index 285