2021
DOI: 10.18357/anthropologica6312021273
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Negotiating Legitimacy: Binational Couples in the Face of Immigration Bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy

Abstract: 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 … Show more

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“…While many petitioners unfamiliar with the reunification process initially believe it is a simple bureaucratic one, they find their trust in the state over time called into question. (Odasso 2021b). As citizens begin to recognize that their marriages to non-citizens invokes the state's moral scrutiny, they start to evaluate what evidence that they must provide the state to overcome it.…”
Section: Moral Line Of Credit: Conceptualizing the Citizens' Role In ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While many petitioners unfamiliar with the reunification process initially believe it is a simple bureaucratic one, they find their trust in the state over time called into question. (Odasso 2021b). As citizens begin to recognize that their marriages to non-citizens invokes the state's moral scrutiny, they start to evaluate what evidence that they must provide the state to overcome it.…”
Section: Moral Line Of Credit: Conceptualizing the Citizens' Role In ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the past decade scholars have looked at mixed couples and families as a kind of 'social and cultural laboratory' (Barbara, 1993) in which to study the relationships within the conjugal dyad, the socialisation of the children and the reaction of the socio-institutional context to the choice to break the endogamous norm (Cerchiaro 2019(Cerchiaro , 2020(Cerchiaro and 2021Odasso, 2016Odasso, , 2020aOdasso, , 2020bOdasso, and 2021Collet 2012;Song and Gutierrez, 2015a;Edwards et al, 2010). Parenting, in particular, has emerged as a privileged space in which to observe how partners cope with their different backgrounds and seek to transmit to their offspring a sense of belonging 3 to one's group (Deirdre, 2002;Rockquemore and Laszloffy, 2005;McCarthy, 2007;Edwards et al, 2010;Arweck and Nesbitt, 2010;Gutierrez, 2015a, 2015b;Cerchiaro et al, 2015).…”
Section: Circumcision As a Synecdoche To Analyse Transmission In Conj...mentioning
confidence: 99%