Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies with affiliations in Latin American and Latino Studies, Research Center for the Americas, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (2013).

"A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking." - Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa Cruz "Summing Up: Recommended." (CHOICE) "This book is a helpful contribution to our understanding about the cybermarriage industry." (INTAMS Review)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Intimate Investments 1 Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law 2 Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 3 Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities 4 Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia 5 Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot Notes References Index About the Author

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies with affiliations in Latin American and Latino Studies, Research Center for the Americas, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (2013).

"A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking." - Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa Cruz "Summing Up: Recommended." (CHOICE) "This book is a helpful contribution to our understanding about the cybermarriage industry." (INTAMS Review)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Intimate Investments 1 Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law 2 Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 3 Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities 4 Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia 5 Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot Notes References Index About the Author

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies with affiliations in Latin American and Latino Studies, Research Center for the Americas, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (2013).

"A brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking." - Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa Cruz "Summing Up: Recommended." (CHOICE) "This book is a helpful contribution to our understanding about the cybermarriage industry." (INTAMS Review)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Intimate Investments 1 Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law 2 Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 3 Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities 4 Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia 5 Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot Notes References Index About the Author