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Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

Momesso, Lara

Hardcover

Series: Governing Intimacies in the Global South

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1526189534
ISBN13: 9781526189530
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Sep 2 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.

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