Repressive autonomy: discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-328
Author(s):  
Sabine Strasser
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Turkish Migrants ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Legal Provisions

Transnational marriages and family reunification have recently been assessed as one of the main obstacles to integration in Austria. They have been increasingly problematized and kept under surveillance when partners from third countries, in Austria particularly from Turkey, have been involved. Nonetheless, a great number of Turkish migrants and their descendants prefer to marry partners from their ‘country of origin’. In this paper I discuss practices of and discourses on family formation across borders based on an ethnographic fieldwork in a small town in Austria. Findings show that transnational marriages in Austria are often conflated with forced and fictitious marriages and consequently rejected as defraud or ‘violence in the name of tradition’. Furthermore, legal provisions against problematic marriages do not liberate women but repress their autonomy.

scholarly journals ‘Why Are You Not Crying?’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Gladys Akom Ankobrey ◽  
Valentina Mazzucato ◽  
Lauren B. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Transnational Engagement

Abstract This article analyses the ways in which young people with a migration background develop their own transnational engagement with their or their parents’ country of origin. Drawing on 17-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, we add to the emerging literature on ‘return’ mobilities by analysing young people of Ghanaian background, irrespective of whether they or their parents migrated, and by looking at an under-researched form of mobility that they engage in: that of attending funerals in Ghana. Funerals occupy a central role in Ghanaian society, and thus allow young people to gain knowledge about cultural practices, both by observing and embodying them, and develop their relationships with people in Ghana. Rather than reproducing their parents’ transnational attachments, young people recreate these according to their own needs, which involves dealing with tensions. Peer relationships—which have largely gone unnoticed in transnational migration studies—play a significant role in this process.

Marriage Migration and State Interests: Reflections from the Experiences of Marriage Migrants from the People’s Republic of China in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Momesso
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Dynamic Force ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
State Relations

AbstractThis paper, by building on the empirical case of marriage migration across the Taiwan Strait, problematises the consequences, on migrants’ lives, of state-to-state relations, especially when sending and receiving states hold antagonistic nationalistic interests. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical literature on marriage migration, particularly in the East Asian context, by adding the dimension of state to state relations in shaping contemporary movements for family formation. Furthermore, this paper contributes to the broader debate on transnational migration studies by arguing that the power of the nation-state over contemporary migration flows is not fixed and immutable, but it is rather a dynamic force that changes depending on broader factors related not only to global restructuring but also to the relations between sending and receiving state. Ultimately, migrants may have a degree of agency in responding to sending and receiving country’s nationalistic agendas.

Negotiating between Shi’a and Catholic Rituals in Iran

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Ashraf Zahedi
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Iranian Children ◽  
At Home

Religious rituals, while comforting for believers, may be uncomfortable for those who do not share their manifold meanings. Catholic Filipinas who marry Muslim Iranian men face mandatory conversion to Islam, necessitating ongoing negotiations between Christianity and Islam. My research suggests that these Filipinas held their first religion dear while participating in – for them – unpleasant Shi’a Muslims rituals. Their Filipino/Iranian children, familiar from birth with Shi’a Islam, felt at home with both religions, no matter which one they chose for themselves. The discussion of converts’ perceptions of Shi’a rituals contributes to the literature on transnational marriages and marriage migration.

scholarly journals “Waiting for a Wife”: Transnational Marriages and the Social Dimensions of Refugee “Integration”

Refuge ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Ruth Brunner ◽  
Jennifer Hyndman ◽  
Alison Mountz
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Transnational Marriages ◽  
Refugee Integration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper addresses the gap in research on the social dimensions of refugee resettlement. This is accomplished by examining refugee belonging and definitions of “integration”through a case study of Acehnese refugees resettled in Vancouver, British Columbia, between 2004 and 2006. We analyze findings based on a survey and in-depth interviews conducted five years after resettlement. Our findings suggest that recently resettled groups like the Acehnese, who are “new and few,” face specif c integration challenges. Importantly,the lengthy timelines to enact sponsorship of a spouse and/or family reunification from Aceh unwittingly inhibit the social integration of the sponsors waiting in Canada.

scholarly journals Working Mis/Understandings: The Tangled Relationship between Kinship, Franco-Malagasy Binational Marriages, and the French State

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cole
Keyword(s):  
Family Reunification ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
French Colonies ◽  
Intimate Relations

Marriage migration and family reunification have become one of the few ways for migrants from former French colonies to gain legal entry to France. As a result, love, marriage, and kinship have become central to the politics of contemporary border control. Based on extensive research with Franco-Malagasy families in southwestern France, this article examines how couples negotiate the complexities of their binational relationships in the context of state-fostered xenophobia and suspicion. I suggest the analytic of a working mis/understanding to capture how these marriages operate. While at one level the working mis/understanding enables Malagasy women and French men to bridge their different notions of kinship, at another level it naturalizes a long-standing colonial relationship between France and Madagascar. I further consider how the sociocultural dynamics of the working mis/understanding illuminate how state regulations produce the commodification of intimate relations allegedly intrinsic to these marriages.

Sponsors, Sponsorship Rates and the Immigration Multiplier

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 856-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermina Jasso ◽  
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
The Family ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Do So

This article reviews the evidence pertaining to the extent to which U.S. immigrants actually make use of the family reunification entitlements of United States immigration laws, examining the two available studies which are based on probability samples of immigrant entry cohorts. It then provides new estimates of the characteristics of the U.S. citizen sponsors of immigrant spouses and parents. The first study examined, the 1986 Jasso-Rosenzweig study of the FY 1971 immigrant cohort, suggests that the multiplier — the total number of immigrants brought in by one original immigrant — is far less than its potential size but is not trivial. The 1988 General Accounting Office (GAO) report based on the FY 1985 immigrant cohort indicates that 1) the propensity to sponsor new immigrants is substantially higher for immigrants than for native born citizens and that 2) immigrant sponsors of new immigrants tend to petition as soon as they are able to do so according to the law. With respect to the characteristics of sponsors, analysis of the information in the GAO report indicates that 80 percent of the persons who immigrated in FY 1985 as the spouses of U.S. citizens were sponsored by native born U.S. citizens. In contrast, native born U.S. citizens sponsored only five percent of the parent immigrants. Additional findings on the country of origin and sex of the sponsored immigrants are presented.

Court of Justice of the European Union: The Right to Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals under EU Law; Decision of 4 March 2010, Case C-578/08, Rhimou Chakroun v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Wiesbrock
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
The Right ◽  
Third Country Nationals

On 4 March 2010 the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its first judgment on the conformity with EU law of national provisions implementing Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification. In the case Chakroun v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken the Court had to rule on the Dutch implementing measures concerning resource requirements and the concepts of family reunification and family formation.

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