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PUBLI : Laura Odasso “Intimacy Brokers” in Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration, 2022

Odessa L. et Salcedo M., 2022. « Intimacy Brokers. The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France», in D’Aoust Anne-Marie (ed.), Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration: Constellations of Security, Citizenship and Rights, Rutgers University Press, p. 171-188.

Résumé de l’ouvrage

This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. Which forms of attachments (towards the family, the nation, or specific individuals) have become framed as risks to be managed? How do such preoccupations translate into policies? With what consequences for those affected by them, in terms of rights and access to citizenship? The book answers these questions by analyzing the interplay between issues of security, citizenship and rights from the perspectives of migrants and policymakers, but also from actors who negotiate encounters with the state, such as lawyers, non-governmental organizations, and translators.

Site de l’éditeur : https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/transnational-marriage-and-partner-migration/9781978816701

PUBLI : Stéphanie Dadour, « Le relevé pour saisir la fabrique du foyer avec un étranger », De Facto, 2020

Le relevé pour saisir la fabrique du foyer avec un étranger

Entretien avec Stéphanie Dadour, historienne de l’architecture.
Propos recueillis par Perin Emel Yavuz

Lorsque des citoyens offrent un lieu de vie aux migrants, le foyer se transforme en tissant de nouveaux liens. Stéphanie Dadour effectue des relevés pour étudier ces formes de cohabitation.

En ligne : https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2020/02/24/defacto-016-05/

 

PUBLI : Laura Odasso, « Negotiating Legitimacy », Anthropologica, vol. 63, n°1, 2021

« Negotiating Legitimacy : Binational Couples in the Face of Immigration Bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy »

Drawing from ethnographic research conducted with binational heterosexual couples negotiating their legitimacy in the face of immigration bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy, I explore the interplay between marriage migration governmentality and personal subjectivities. In a context of increased political scrutiny, I illustrate how binational couples wield their intimacy to become and stay legal ; and how their experiences of the bureaucratic encounters impact on both partners’ agency, producing swinging emotions and improving their legal culture. In Belgium and Italy, marriage to a citizen remains a pathway towards securing residence for the migrant partner. Hence, in both countries these formalities, that I frame as a network of bordering practices, are increasingly – but differently – policed defining divergent marriage migration regimes but similar shared migratory careers for the couples. The potency of the legal-bureaucratic culture fashions the couples’ journey through immigration law and its street-level implementation. Nevertheless, beyond the opportunity structures and nationally anchored constraints, the analysis demonstrates that the partners’ agency similarly emerges from the migration management at large, their personal legal status and biographical resources, and interactions with intermediaries at the margin of immigration bureaucracy. Such agency – triggered by intimate intentions and expectations – is contingent and relational.

En ligne : https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/273