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Introduction — Migrations by marriage and transnational respondents

Abstract

The popularisation, in France, of the expressions ‘white marriage’ and ‘grey marriage’, like that of green card marriage in the United States, points to the increasing visibility of marriage as a migration route, partly overshadowing the traditional focus on labour migration. This phenomenon is referred to as a constellation of terms: ‘cross-border marriages’, ‘transnational marriages’ and ‘international marriages’, or ‘marital migration’ and ‘migration by marriage’. From this wide range of terms, and in order to present the challenges of this research to a French-speaking audience, we come back in this introduction to the terms sometimes used to denote the phenomenon of migration through marriage, before considering it successively from the point of view of the tensions revealed by the initial academic research. First of all, we will discuss the prospects that vary between denying the merchandising of women’s bodies or, on the contrary, highlighting their capacity to act. Secondly, we will address the work that highlights the continuum between family migration and labour migration. Finally, we will present research on the issue of national imaginaries underlying the institutional and political treatment of the relationship between migration and marriage. Taken together, these three perspectives show how migration is shaped, both through the renewal of gender relationships in contemporary times, and by the globalisation of the labour market and national constructions. A constellation of terms between merchandisation and agency Family migration, labour migration borders, migration policies and national imaginations

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