‘For her protection and benefit’: the regulation of marriage-related migration to the UK

Carver, Natasha

doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1171369

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“…I'm bloated with language I can't afford to forget.”Warsan Shire (), from Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre)The belief that the world consists of discrete and bounded nation‐states to which every individual body has a designated attachment remains at the heart of political and legal understandings of migration. Through the categorization of movers – who is permitted entry and under what conditions – states (re)produce not only their own nation as an ideal type (Anderson, ; Carver, ), but also, I argue here, determine and fix the belonging of the migrant and thus (re)produce the nation‐state system as a global reality. For the majority of movers, this is little more than a subliminal reiteration of nation‐state belonging at the moment of border‐crossing, involving the swipe of a passport over a scanner.…”

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The Silent Backdrop: Colonial Anxiety at the Border

Carver¹

2019

J Historical Sociology

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Through the categorization of movers, states determine and fix the belonging of migrants and thereby reproduce the nation‐state system as a global reality. Some movers, however, are deemed illegible and must be identified, labelled and thus brought within the system. This paper unpicks the legal consequences of a “coloniality of power” (Quijano, 2000) embedded within the border system as a whole. The paper demonstrates this process through a post‐colonial examination of Somali migration and the application of the 1951 Refugee Convention at the UK border. The Somali migrant, like his colonized predecessor, is constructed as an unreliable informant of him/herself; a “lying native” (Bhabha, 1994) whose identity can be ‘discovered’ by the tools of the enlightened West.

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The Silent Backdrop: Colonial Anxiety at the Border

Carver¹

2019

J Historical Sociology

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“…The fight against 'sham marriages' and the policing of other non-acceptable marriages (e.g. 'forced', 'arranged', 'polygamous') in the Netherlands and many European countries have been presented as measures to protect women (Block, 2019;Leutloff-Grandits, 2019;Muller Myrdahl 2010;Carver 2016). Marriages with Dutch women are more likely to be suspected by immigration authorities as 'sham' than marriages with Dutch men Kulu-Glasgow, Smit, and Jennissen 2017).…”

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Love, money and papers in the affective circuits of cross-border marriages: beyond the ‘sham’/‘genuine’ dichotomy

Andrikopoulos

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In the name of women's protection, Dutch immigration authorities police cross-border marriages differentiating between acceptable and non-acceptable forms of marriage (e.g. 'forced', 'sham', 'arranged'). The categorisation of marriages between 'sham' and 'genuine' derives from the assumption that interest and love are and should be unconnected. Nevertheless, love and interest are closely entwined and their consideration as separate is not only misleading but affects the exchanges that take place within marriage and, therefore, has particular implications for spouses, especially for women. The ethnographic analysis of marriages between unauthorised African male migrants and (non-Dutch) EU female citizens, often suspected by immigration authorities of being 'sham', demonstrate the complex articulation of love and interest and the consequences of neglecting this entanglementboth for the spouses and scholars. The cases show that romantic love is not a panacea for unequal gender relations and may place women in a disadvantaged positionall the more so because the norms of love are gendered and construe self-sacrifice as more fundamental in women's manifestations of love than that of men's.

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“…The Naturalisation Act 1844 denied women the right to confer their nationality to foreign spouses, even though foreign-born women marrying British men had automatic access to citizenship. From 1870, women lost their nationality and automatic right to enter the UK if they 'deliberately married an alien' or their British husband renounced his nationality (Carver 2016). It was not until 1948 that British women could retain their nationality independently of their husbands, and only since 1983 that they could transmit it to their children.…”

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