Intimate mobilities: sexual economies, marriage and migration in a disparate world

Intimate Mobilities -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies -- Part I. Migration Regimes and their Intimate Discontents -- Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking -- Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism and Failed Cross-Border Marriages -- Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office -- Part II. Circuits of Sex, Race and Gendered Bodies -- Chapter 4. Survival within a Multi-circuited Maze -- Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy -- Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities beyond Sex Work and Marriage -- Part III. Moralities of Money, Mobility and Intimacy -- Chapter 7. From Programas to Help and Marriagei -- Chapter 8. True Love and Cunning Love -- Chapter 9. The Masculine and Moral Self -- Index

Intimate Mobilities; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies; Part I. Migration Regimes and their Intimate Discontents; Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking; Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism and Failed Cross-Border Marriages; Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office; Part II. Circuits of Sex, Race and Gendered Bodies; Chapter 4. Survival within a Multi-circuited Maze; Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy; Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities beyond Sex Work and Marriage

Intimate Mobilities; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies; Part I. Migration Regimes and their Intimate Discontents; Chapter 1. Transnational Matchmaking; Chapter 2. Temporary Intimacies, Incipient Transnationalism and Failed Cross-Border Marriages; Chapter 3. Screening for Romance and Compatibility in the Brussels Civil Registrar Office; Part II. Circuits of Sex, Race and Gendered Bodies; Chapter 4. Survival within a Multi-circuited Maze; Chapter 5. Mobility through the Sexual Economy; Chapter 6. Fluid Sexualities beyond Sex Work and Marriage.

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world