Documenting Attachment: <i>Affective border control in applications for family reunification</i>

Abstract

Migration politics often seem to presuppose national belonging as a given fact (Yuval-Davis 2011). However, as national belonging seem to denote both a strictly juridical relation and, simultaneously, less defi nable emotional attachments to a nation, it may be diffi cult to prove such belonging. How does one document national belonging when that belonging's juridical sanction is in question? In the following, we invite the reader to think of the

Birth of a virtual community: Supporting Turkish couples' migration duringCOVID‐19

“…Policies and many studies on family and family migration reflect a perspective on society and family from the nation‐state–centered point of view and are thus trapped in methodological nationalism (Wimmer & Glick‐Schiller, 2002). The policies are shaped mainly by Western culture assumptions on marriage and family and framed by the boundaries of belonging to racialized and gendered imagined communities (Beck & Beck‐Gernsheim, 2010; Bonjour & de Hart, 2013; Bonjour & Duyvendak, 2018; Grillo, 2008; Jeholm & Bissenbakker, 2019; Kofman, 2004; van Walsum, 2008). This manifests in the existence of income, housing, age, and integration exam requirements (Bonjour & Kraler, 2015; Pellander, 2021; Strik et al, 2013).…”