Intimate Mobilities

Christian Groes is an Associate Professor at Roskilde University. His books include Affective Circuits: African Migration to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration (2016, co-ed. Jennifer Cole) and Studying Intimate Matters: Engaging Methodological Challenges in Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, co-ed. Barbara Ann Barrett). In 2012, he received the Young Elite Researcher prize from the Danish Council for Independent Research.

“[The] volume represents a forceful challenge to dominant narratives about mobility and migration being the results of “push and pull” economic factors.” • Geopolitics“Bringing together the concepts of intimacy and mobility, Groes and Fernandez have composed a collection of articles that show not only how enriching the concept of intimacy is for mobility but also the other way round… With the presented volume, Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez published a book that is inspiring for researchers interested in mobilities, intimacies, and especially intimate mobilities.” • Anthropos“[This volume] marks a significant contribution to the literature on labor migration, cross-border marriages, and transnational intimacies. The book is a must-read for migration scholars and mobilities researchers concerned with racialization, gender and sexual politics, and the global circulation of bodies, desires, and relations.” • Transfers“Written by an international cluster of leading scholars, this volume combines the work of academics who have engaged in sustained, multi-sited, transnational ethnography with that of newer scholars rethinking the field of marriage, migration state policy, and locality. The scholarship of this volume challenges and transforms the field of migration studies by teaching us how to theorize migration and state immigration policies through the lens of intimate relations.” • Amalia L. Cabezas, University of California, Riverside“This is a solid, worthwhile scholarly contribution that moves our knowledge of migration and intimate relationships further along.” • Gilbert Herdt, San Francisco State University

• ForewordKatharine CharsleyIntroduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile IntimaciesChristian Groes and Nadine T. FernandezPART I: MIGRATION REGIMES AND THEIR INTIMATE DISCONTENTSChapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking: Marriage Practices of Chinese Migrants from Qingtian Living in EuropeMartina BofulinChapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism, and Failed Cross-Border MarriagesNicole ConstableChapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in Brussels’s Civil Registrar Office: Practical Norms Of Bureaucratic FeminismMäité MaskensPART II: CIRCUITS OF SEX, RACE AND GENDERED BODIESChapter 4. Survival Within A Multi-Circuited Maze: Latin American Sex Workers In SpainLaura OsoChapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy: Exchanging Sexual Capital for Respectability in Mozambican Women’s Marriage Migration to EuropeChristian GroesChapter 6. Fluid Sexualities Beyond Sex Work and Marriage: Thai Migrants’ Racialized Gender Performance in CopenhagenMarlene SpangerPART III: MORALITIES OF MONEY, MOBILITY AND INTIMACYChapter 7. From Programas to Help and Marriage: Transnational Sexual, Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian WomenAdriana PiscitelliChapter 8. True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic CubaValerio SimoniChapter 9. The Masculine and Moral Self: Migration Narratives of Cuban Husbands in ScandinaviaNadine T. FernandezIndex